.. bpo: 45738
.. date: 2021-11-14-00-14-45
.. nonce: e0cgKd
.. release date: 2021-11-15
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix computation of error location for invalid continuation characters in the
parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 45235
.. date: 2021-11-11-13-03-17
.. nonce: 8ZbkHa
.. section: Library

Reverted an argparse bugfix that caused regression in the handling of
default arguments for subparsers.  This prevented leaf level arguments from
taking precedence over root level arguments.

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.. bpo: 45765
.. date: 2021-11-09-09-04-19
.. nonce: JVobxK
.. section: Library

In importlib.metadata, fix distribution discovery for an empty path.

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.. bpo: 45644
.. date: 2021-11-06-17-47-46
.. nonce: ZMqHD_
.. section: Library

In-place JSON file formatting using ``python3 -m json.tool infile infile``
now works correctly, previously it left the file empty.  Patch by Chris
Wesseling.

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.. bpo: 45772
.. date: 2021-11-09-13-10-55
.. nonce: EdrM3t
.. section: Documentation

``socket.socket`` documentation is corrected to a class from a function.

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.. bpo: 45392
.. date: 2021-11-06-10-54-17
.. nonce: JZnVOz
.. section: Documentation

Update the docstring of the :class:`type` built-in to remove a redundant
line and to mention keyword arguments for the constructor.

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.. bpo: 45732
.. date: 2021-11-08-21-53-11
.. nonce: idl5kx
.. section: Windows

Updates bundled Tcl/Tk to 8.6.12.

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.. bpo: 45720
.. date: 2021-11-05-01-05-46
.. nonce: 47Nc5I
.. section: Windows

Internal reference to :file:`shlwapi.dll` was dropped to help improve
startup time. This DLL will no longer be loaded at the start of every Python
process.