This fixes the linked issue. The reproduction case is:

python3 -c "import sys, urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen('https://www.google.com'); assert 'encodings.idna' not in sys.modules"

One caveat is that this changes the exception type for socket.getaddrinfo (and probably other socket calls) when the hostname contains a null byte or codepoint: formerly, socket.getaddrinfo("a\u0000b", 443) or socket.getaddrinfo(b'a\x00b', 443) would throw socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known, but now they throw TypeError: host name must not contain null character.

I signed the CLA earlier today but it isn't recognized yet, I figured I might as well open the PR now.

Thanks very much for your time.

https://bugs.python.org/issue46750