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@@ -383,6 +383,13 @@ Other Language Changes
coerces negative zero to zero after rounding to the format precision. See
:pep:`682` for more details. (Contributed by John Belmonte in :gh:`90153`.)
+* Bytes are no longer accepted on :attr:`sys.path`. Support broke sometime
+ between Python 3.2 and 3.6 with no one noticing until after Python 3.10.0
+ was released. Bringing back support would also be problematic due to
+ interactions between :option:`-b` and :attr:`sys.path_importer_cache` when
+ there is a mixture of strings and bytes keys.
+ (Contributed by Thomas Grainger in :gh:`91181`.)
+
Other CPython Implementation Changes
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