I believe this is no longer required because we moved SSL into the Ice core, and IcePy is linked with the Ice library. The previous issue was related to IcePy not being linked with IceSSL and performing dynamic_cast on types defined in IceSSL (IceSSL::EndpointInfo).
https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/blob/6d8603a75771bb35c03f331e3bc6b972589e931f/python/python/Ice/__init__.py#L24-L38
I believe this is no longer required because we moved SSL into the Ice core, and IcePy is linked with the Ice library. The previous issue was related to IcePy not being linked with IceSSL and performing dynamic_cast on types defined in IceSSL (IceSSL::EndpointInfo).
See also https://zeroc.atlassian.net/issues/ICE-3366