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:meth:`datetime.datetime.astimezone`.
(Contributed by Paul Ganssle in :issue:`32417`.)
+* When the Python interpreter is interrupted by Ctrl-C (SIGINT) and the
+ resulting :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception is not caught, the Python process
+ now exits via a SIGINT signal or with the correct exit code such that the
+ calling process can detect that it died due to a Ctrl-C. Shells on POSIX
+ and Windows use this to properly terminate scripts in interactive sessions.
+ (Contributed by Google via Gregory P. Smith in :issue:`1054041`.)
+
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