diff --git a/Include/Python.h b/Include/Python.h
index 6fbc49c..0168345 100644
--- a/Include/Python.h
+++ b/Include/Python.h
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject*) _Py_Mangle(PyObject *p, PyObject *name);
 
 /* _Py_char2wchar lives in main.c */
 PyAPI_FUNC(wchar_t *) _Py_char2wchar(char *);
+
+#ifdef HAVE_STAT
+/* _Py_stat lives in import.c */
+int _Py_stat(PyObject *path, struct stat *statbuf);
+#endif
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 194e360..dcb4f3c 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -1962,6 +1962,42 @@ case_ok(char *buf, Py_ssize_t len, Py_ssize_t namelen, char *name)
 
 
 #ifdef HAVE_STAT
+
+/* Call _wstat() on Windows, or stat() otherwise. Only fill st_mode
+   attribute on Windows. Return 0 on success, -1 on error. Clear unicode error
+   on path encoding failure. */
+
+int
+_Py_stat(PyObject *path, struct stat *statbuf)
+{
+    int err;
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+    wchar_t wpath[MAXPATHLEN+1];
+    Py_ssize_t len;
+    struct _stat wstatbuf;
+
+    len = PyUnicode_AsWideChar((PyUnicodeObject*)path, wpath,
+                               sizeof(wpath) / sizeof(wpath[0]));
+    if (len == -1) {
+        PyErr_Clear();
+        return -1;
+    }
+    err = _wstat(wpath, &statbuf);
+    if (!err)
+        statbuf->st_mode = wstatbuf.st_mode;
+    return err;
+#else
+    PyObject *bytes = PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(path);
+    if (bytes == NULL) {
+        PyErr_Clear();
+        return -1;
+    }
+    err = stat(PyBytes_AS_STRING(bytes), statbuf);
+    Py_DECREF(bytes);
+    return err;
+#endif
+}
+
 /* Helper to look for __init__.py or __init__.py[co] in potential package */
 static int
 find_init_module(char *buf)