[EASY] Broken MSDN links in msilib docs

[berkerpeksag]

BPO	31948
Nosy	@berkerpeksag, @Mariatta, @akashbw
PRs	bpo-31948: Broken MSDN links in msilib docs #4397 [3.6] bpo-31948: Fix broken links in msilib docs (GH-4397). #4398

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closed_at = <Date 2017-11-15.00:27:17.643>
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labels = ['easy', 'type-bug', '3.7', 'docs']
title = '[EASY] Broken MSDN links in msilib docs'
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[berkerpeksag]

Most of the MSDN links in Doc/library/msilib.rst are broken:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/msilib.html

For example, the UuidToString link goes to

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library?url=/library/en-us/rpc/rpc/uuidtostring.asp

But I believe the correct link should be

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379352(v=vs.85).aspx

[akashbw]

Hi,

I am new to contributing in Python, Can I work on this issue?

[Mariatta]

New changeset 3bda022 by Mariatta (Jesse-Bakker) in branch 'master':
bpo-31948: Fix broken links in msilib docs (GH-4397)
3bda022

[Mariatta]

This couldn't be backported by miss-islington, so someone needs to do it manually.

[Mariatta]

New changeset 42336de by Mariatta (Jesse-Bakker) in branch '3.6':
bpo-31948: Fix broken links in msilib docs (GH-4397). (GH-4398)
42336de