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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2023      Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _SAMBA_PYTHON_H
+#define _SAMBA_PYTHON_H
+
+/*
+ * With Python 3.6 Cpython started to require C99. With Python 3.12 they
+ * started to mix code and variable declarations so disable the warnings.
+ */
+#pragma GCC diagnostic push
+#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wdeclaration-after-statement"
+#include <Python.h>
+#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
+
+#endif /* _SAMBA_PYTHON_H */