add a fix for bug 1168769 (#249) #1046

Job	Run time
Smoke test and building	35s
Check library dependencies ship with valid licenses	34s
Running documentation style checks	16s
Building library documentation	16m 37s
Test library (windows-latest, 3.10)	8m 28s
Test library (windows-latest, 3.11)	8m 31s
Test library (windows-latest, 3.12)	7m 51s
Test library (ubuntu-20.04, 3.10)	2m 42s
Test library (ubuntu-20.04, 3.11)	2m 40s
Test library (ubuntu-20.04, 3.12)	2m 43s
Deploy developers documentation	52s
Deploy stable documentation	0s
Release to public PyPI	0s
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