> it would be better for MATLAB to embed the manifest in their host executable if they're going to load the DLL directly.

can you help me understand?  as far as i could tell, we need python to use the msvcr*.dll that comes with matlab, not v/v.

it's hard (as a customer) to get mathworks (matlab's author) to do anything, but if the fix would best be done by them, they might listen to "official python muckity-mucks," especially since their python integration is relatively new...  no idea how to find out who to contact there though.