This is a shim DLL to run unpatched Python3.8+ on Windows 7. This built specifically for Python and is not a fully featured, general purpose replacement for api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll.
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It passes through these functions, and only works with PATHCCH_NONE flags:
PathCchCanonicalizeEx() => PathCanonicalizeW()
PathCchCombineEx() => PathCombineW()