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.. bpo: 30570
.. date: 2021-10-19-01-04-08
.. nonce: _G30Ms
.. release date: 2021-11-05
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed a crash in ``issubclass()`` from infinite recursion when searching
pathological ``__bases__`` tuples.

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.. bpo: 45494
.. date: 2021-10-16-17-27-48
.. nonce: vMt1g4
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix parser crash when reporting errors involving invalid continuation
characters. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 45385
.. date: 2021-10-06-21-20-11
.. nonce: CTUT8s
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix reference leak from descr_check. Patch by Dong-hee Na.

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.. bpo: 45167
.. date: 2021-09-14-09-23-59
.. nonce: CPSSoV
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix deepcopying of :class:`types.GenericAlias` objects.

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.. bpo: 44219
.. date: 2021-09-09-10-32-33
.. nonce: WiYyjz
.. section: Core and Builtins

Release the GIL while performing ``isatty`` system calls on arbitrary file
descriptors. In particular, this affects :func:`os.isatty`,
:func:`os.device_encoding` and :class:`io.TextIOWrapper`. By extension,
:func:`io.open` in text mode is also affected. This change solves a deadlock
in :func:`os.isatty`. Patch by Vincent Michel in :issue:`44219`.

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.. bpo: 44959
.. date: 2021-09-08-08-29-41
.. nonce: OSwwPf
.. section: Core and Builtins

Added fallback to extension modules with '.sl' suffix on HP-UX

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.. bpo: 44050
.. date: 2021-09-08-00-30-09
.. nonce: mFI15u
.. section: Core and Builtins

Extensions that indicate they use global state (by setting ``m_size`` to -1)
can again be used in multiple interpreters. This reverts to behavior of
Python 3.8.

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.. bpo: 45121
.. date: 2021-09-07-17-10-16
.. nonce: iG-Hsf
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix issue where ``Protocol.__init__`` raises ``RecursionError`` when it's
called directly or via ``super()``. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.

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.. bpo: 45083
.. date: 2021-09-01-23-55-49
.. nonce: cLi9G3
.. section: Core and Builtins

When the interpreter renders an exception, its name now has a complete
qualname. Previously only the class name was concatenated to the module
name, which sometimes resulted in an incorrect full name being displayed.

(This issue impacted only the C code exception rendering, the
:mod:`traceback` module was using qualname already).

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.. bpo: 45678
.. date: 2021-11-03-17-28-43
.. nonce: Zj_O8j
.. section: Library

Fix bug in Python 3.9 that meant ``functools.singledispatchmethod`` failed
to properly wrap the attributes of the target method. Patch by Alex Waygood.

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.. bpo: 45679
.. date: 2021-10-30-21-11-37
.. nonce: Dq8Cpu
.. section: Library

Fix caching of multi-value :data:`typing.Literal`. ``Literal[True, 2]`` is
no longer equal to ``Literal[1, 2]``.

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.. bpo: 45438
.. date: 2021-10-27-10-05-39
.. nonce: Xz5lGU
.. section: Library

Fix typing.Signature string representation for generic builtin types.

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.. bpo: 45581
.. date: 2021-10-22-21-57-02
.. nonce: rlH6ay
.. section: Library

:meth:`sqlite3.connect` now correctly raises :exc:`MemoryError` if the
underlying SQLite API signals memory error. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

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.. bpo: 39679
.. date: 2021-10-20-10-07-44
.. nonce: nVYJJ3
.. section: Library

Fix bug in :class:`functools.singledispatchmethod` that caused it to fail
when attempting to register a :func:`classmethod` or :func:`staticmethod`
using type annotations. Patch contributed by Alex Waygood.

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.. bpo: 45515
.. date: 2021-10-18-14-52-48
.. nonce: aXdvm_
.. section: Library

Add references to :mod:`zoneinfo` in the :mod:`datetime` documentation,
mostly replacing outdated references to ``dateutil.tz``. Change by Paul
Ganssle.

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.. bpo: 45467
.. date: 2021-10-14-13-31-19
.. nonce: Q7Ma6A
.. section: Library

Fix incremental decoder and stream reader in the "raw-unicode-escape" codec.
Previously they failed if the escape sequence was split.

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.. bpo: 45461
.. date: 2021-10-14-00-19-02
.. nonce: 4LB_tJ
.. section: Library

Fix incremental decoder and stream reader in the "unicode-escape" codec.
Previously they failed if the escape sequence was split.

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.. bpo: 45239
.. date: 2021-10-13-17-52-48
.. nonce: 7li1_0
.. section: Library

Fixed :func:`email.utils.parsedate_tz` crashing with
:exc:`UnboundLocalError` on certain invalid input instead of returning
``None``. Patch by Ben Hoyt.

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.. bpo: 44904
.. date: 2021-10-09-18-42-27
.. nonce: RlW5h8
.. section: Library

Fix bug in the :mod:`doctest` module that caused it to fail if a docstring
included an example with a ``classmethod`` ``property``. Patch by Alex
Waygood.

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.. bpo: 45406
.. date: 2021-10-08-19-24-48
.. nonce: Qh_Mz4
.. section: Library

Make :func:`inspect.getmodule` catch ``FileNotFoundError`` raised by
:'func:`inspect.getabsfile`, and return ``None`` to indicate that the module
could not be determined.

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.. bpo: 45262
.. date: 2021-10-07-14-04-10
.. nonce: HqF71Z
.. section: Library

Prevent use-after-free in asyncio. Make sure the cached running loop holder
gets cleared on dealloc to prevent use-after-free in get_running_loop

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.. bpo: 45386
.. date: 2021-10-07-00-05-05
.. nonce: q9ORpA
.. section: Library

Make :mod:`xmlrpc.client` more robust to C runtimes where the underlying C
``strftime`` function results in a ``ValueError`` when testing for year
formatting options.

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.. bpo: 45371
.. date: 2021-10-05-11-03-48
.. nonce: NOwcDJ
.. section: Library

Fix clang rpath issue in :mod:`distutils`. The UnixCCompiler now uses
correct clang option to add a runtime library directory (rpath) to a shared
library.

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.. bpo: 20028
.. date: 2021-10-03-21-14-37
.. nonce: zBA4RK
.. section: Library

Improve error message of :class:`csv.Dialect` when initializing. Patch by
Vajrasky Kok and Dong-hee Na.

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.. bpo: 45343
.. date: 2021-10-01-23-07-02
.. nonce: ixmctD
.. section: Library

Update bundled pip to 21.2.4 and setuptools to 58.1.0

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.. bpo: 41710
.. date: 2021-09-30-23-00-18
.. nonce: svuloZ
.. section: Library

On Unix, if the ``sem_clockwait()`` function is available in the C library
(glibc 2.30 and newer), the :meth:`threading.Lock.acquire` method now uses
the monotonic clock (:data:`time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC`) for the timeout, rather
than using the system clock (:data:`time.CLOCK_REALTIME`), to not be
affected by system clock changes. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 45328
.. date: 2021-09-30-08-22-44
.. nonce: 8Z-Q0B
.. section: Library

Fixed :class:`http.client.HTTPConnection` to work properly in OSs that don't
support the ``TCP_NODELAY`` socket option.

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.. bpo: 1596321
.. date: 2021-09-24-17-20-23
.. nonce: 3nhPUk
.. section: Library

Fix the :func:`threading._shutdown` function when the :mod:`threading`
module was imported first from a thread different than the main thread: no
longer log an error at Python exit.

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.. bpo: 45274
.. date: 2021-09-23-22-17-26
.. nonce: gPpa4E
.. section: Library

Fix a race condition in the :meth:`Thread.join() <threading.Thread.join>`
method of the :mod:`threading` module. If the function is interrupted by a
signal and the signal handler raises an exception, make sure that the thread
remains in a consistent state to prevent a deadlock. Patch by Victor
Stinner.

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.. bpo: 45238
.. date: 2021-09-18-16-56-33
.. nonce: Hng_9V
.. section: Library

Fix :meth:`unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase.debug`: it runs now asynchronous
methods and callbacks.

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.. bpo: 36674
.. date: 2021-09-18-13-14-57
.. nonce: a2k5Zb
.. section: Library

:meth:`unittest.TestCase.debug` raises now a :class:`unittest.SkipTest` if
the class or the test method are decorated with the skipping decorator.

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.. bpo: 45235
.. date: 2021-09-17-16-55-37
.. nonce: sXnmPA
.. section: Library

Fix an issue where argparse would not preserve values in a provided
namespace when using a subparser with defaults.

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.. bpo: 45234
.. date: 2021-09-17-11-20-55
.. nonce: qUcTVt
.. section: Library

Fixed a regression in :func:`~shutil.copyfile`, :func:`~shutil.copy`,
:func:`~shutil.copy2` raising :exc:`FileNotFoundError` when source is a
directory, which should raise :exc:`IsADirectoryError`

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.. bpo: 45228
.. date: 2021-09-17-09-59-33
.. nonce: WV1dcT
.. section: Library

Fix stack buffer overflow in parsing J1939 network address.

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.. bpo: 45192
.. date: 2021-09-14-15-52-47
.. nonce: DjA-BI
.. section: Library

Fix the ``tempfile._infer_return_type`` function so that the ``dir``
argument of the :mod:`tempfile` functions accepts an object implementing the
``os.PathLike`` protocol.

Patch by Kyungmin Lee.

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.. bpo: 45160
.. date: 2021-09-11-14-47-05
.. nonce: VzMXbW
.. section: Library

When tracing a tkinter variable used by a ttk OptionMenu, callbacks are no
longer made twice.

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.. bpo: 35474
.. date: 2021-09-11-10-45-12
.. nonce: tEY3SD
.. section: Library

Calling :func:`mimetypes.guess_all_extensions` with ``strict=False`` no
longer affects the result of the following call with ``strict=True``. Also,
mutating the returned list no longer affects the global state.

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.. bpo: 45166
.. date: 2021-09-10-21-35-53
.. nonce: UHipXF
.. section: Library

:func:`typing.get_type_hints` now works with :data:`~typing.Final` wrapped
in :class:`~typing.ForwardRef`.

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.. bpo: 45097
.. date: 2021-09-04-13-10-25
.. nonce: 5J4IC-
.. section: Library

Remove deprecation warnings about the loop argument in :mod:`asyncio`
incorrectly emitted in cases when the user does not pass the loop argument.

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.. bpo: 45081
.. date: 2021-09-02-12-42-25
.. nonce: tOjJ1k
.. section: Library

Fix issue when dataclasses that inherit from ``typing.Protocol`` subclasses
have wrong ``__init__``. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.

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.. bpo: 24444
.. date: 2021-08-30-00-19-23
.. nonce: Ki4bgz
.. section: Library

Fixed an error raised in :mod:`argparse` help display when help for an
option is set to 1+ blank spaces or when *choices* arg is an empty
container.

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.. bpo: 45021
.. date: 2021-08-28-13-00-12
.. nonce: rReeaj
.. section: Library

Fix a potential deadlock at shutdown of forked children when using
:mod:`concurrent.futures` module

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.. bpo: 45030
.. date: 2021-08-27-19-01-23
.. nonce: tAmBbY
.. section: Library

Fix integer overflow in pickling and copying the range iterator.

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.. bpo: 39039
.. date: 2021-08-18-10-36-14
.. nonce: A63LYh
.. section: Library

tarfile.open raises :exc:`~tarfile.ReadError` when a zlib error occurs
during file extraction.

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.. bpo: 44594
.. date: 2021-07-12-10-32-48
.. nonce: eEa5zi
.. section: Library

Fix an edge case of :class:`ExitStack` and :class:`AsyncExitStack` exception
chaining.  They will now match ``with`` block behavior when ``__context__``
is explicitly set to ``None`` when the exception is in flight.

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.. bpo: 45726
.. date: 2021-11-05-12-15-24
.. nonce: GwRr7e
.. section: Documentation

Improve documentation for :func:`functools.singledispatch` and
:class:`functools.singledispatchmethod`.

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.. bpo: 45680
.. date: 2021-11-03-14-51-03
.. nonce: 9_NTFU
.. section: Documentation

Amend the docs on ``GenericAlias`` objects to clarify that non-container
classes can also implement ``__class_getitem__``. Patch contributed by Alex
Waygood.

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.. bpo: 45655
.. date: 2021-10-28-21-28-07
.. nonce: aPYGaS
.. section: Documentation

Add a new "relevant PEPs" section to the top of the documentation for the
``typing`` module. Patch by Alex Waygood.

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.. bpo: 45604
.. date: 2021-10-26-10-00-45
.. nonce: Dm-YhV
.. section: Documentation

Add ``level`` argument to ``multiprocessing.log_to_stderr`` function docs.

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.. bpo: 45464
.. date: 2021-10-20-16-26-53
.. nonce: mOISBs
.. section: Documentation

Mention in the documentation of :ref:`Built-in Exceptions
<bltin-exceptions>` that inheriting from multiple exception types in a
single subclass is not recommended due to possible memory layout
incompatibility.

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.. bpo: 45449
.. date: 2021-10-19-01-41-40
.. nonce: fjHZJc
.. section: Documentation

Add note about :pep:`585` in :mod:`collections.abc`.

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.. bpo: 45516
.. date: 2021-10-18-20-12-18
.. nonce: EJh4K8
.. section: Documentation

Add protocol description to the :class:`importlib.abc.Traversable`
documentation.

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.. bpo: 20692
.. date: 2021-10-13-00-42-54
.. nonce: K5rGtP
.. section: Documentation

Add Programming FAQ entry explaining that int literal attribute access
requires either a space after or parentheses around the literal.

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.. bpo: 45216
.. date: 2021-09-18-13-45-19
.. nonce: o56nyt
.. section: Documentation

Remove extra documentation listing methods in ``difflib``. It was rendering
twice in pydoc and was outdated in some places.

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.. bpo: 45578
.. date: 2021-10-30-19-00-25
.. nonce: bvu6X2
.. section: Tests

Add tests for :func:`dis.distb`

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.. bpo: 45577
.. date: 2021-10-22-19-44-13
.. nonce: dSaNvK
.. section: Tests

Add subtests for all ``pickle`` protocols in ``test_zoneinfo``.

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.. bpo: 43592
.. date: 2021-10-21-17-22-26
.. nonce: kHRsra
.. section: Tests

:mod:`test.libregrtest` now raises the soft resource limit for the maximum
number of file descriptors when the default is too low for our test suite as
was often the case on macOS.

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.. bpo: 40173
.. date: 2021-09-30-16-54-39
.. nonce: J_slCw
.. section: Tests

Fix :func:`test.support.import_helper.import_fresh_module`.

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.. bpo: 45280
.. date: 2021-09-25-11-05-31
.. nonce: 3MA6lC
.. section: Tests

Add a test case for empty :class:`typing.NamedTuple`.

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.. bpo: 45269
.. date: 2021-09-24-10-41-49
.. nonce: 8jKEr8
.. section: Tests

Cover case when invalid ``markers`` type is supplied to ``c_make_encoder``.

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.. bpo: 45209
.. date: 2021-09-15-23-32-39
.. nonce: 55ntL5
.. section: Tests

Fix ``UserWarning: resource_tracker`` warning in
``_test_multiprocessing._TestSharedMemory.test_shared_memory_cleaned_after_process_termination``

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.. bpo: 45195
.. date: 2021-09-14-13-16-18
.. nonce: EyQR1G
.. section: Tests

Fix test_readline.test_nonascii(): sometimes, the newline character is not
written at the end, so don't expect it in the output. Patch by Victor
Stinner.

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.. bpo: 45156
.. date: 2021-09-13-00-28-17
.. nonce: 8oomV3
.. section: Tests

Fixes infinite loop on :func:`unittest.mock.seal` of mocks created by
:func:`~unittest.create_autospec`.

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.. bpo: 45042
.. date: 2021-08-30-11-54-14
.. nonce: QMz3X8
.. section: Tests

Fixes that test classes decorated with
``@hashlib_helper.requires_hashdigest`` were skipped all the time.

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.. bpo: 43158
.. date: 2021-11-01-12-51-46
.. nonce: fghS6w
.. section: Build

``setup.py`` now uses values from configure script to build the ``_uuid``
extension module. Configure now detects util-linux's ``libuuid``, too.

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.. bpo: 45571
.. date: 2021-10-22-15-28-29
.. nonce: yY8NsJ
.. section: Build

``Modules/Setup`` now use ``PY_CFLAGS_NODIST`` instead of ``PY_CFLAGS`` to
compile shared modules.

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.. bpo: 45532
.. date: 2021-10-20-16-07-39
.. nonce: kyhvis
.. section: Build

Update :data:`sys.version` to use ``main`` as fallback information. Patch by
Jeong YunWon.

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.. bpo: 45405
.. date: 2021-10-11-16-27-38
.. nonce: iSfdW5
.. section: Build

Prevent ``internal configure error`` when running ``configure`` with recent
versions of non-Apple clang.  Patch by David Bohman.

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.. bpo: 45220
.. date: 2021-09-16-18-00-43
.. nonce: TgbkvW
.. section: Build

Avoid building with the Windows 11 SDK previews automatically. This may be
overridden by setting the ``DefaultWindowsSDKVersion`` environment variable
before building.

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.. bpo: 45337
.. date: 2021-09-30-23-17-27
.. nonce: qg7U_h
.. section: Windows

venv now warns when the created environment may need to be accessed at a
different path, due to redirections, links or junctions. It also now
correctly installs or upgrades components when the alternate path is
required.

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.. bpo: 44828
.. date: 2021-10-25-02-02-21
.. nonce: XBdXlJ
.. section: macOS

Avoid tkinter file dialog failure on macOS 12 Monterey when using the Tk
8.6.11 provided by python.org macOS installers. Patch by Marc Culler of the
Tk project.

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.. bpo: 45296
.. date: 2021-09-27-01-21-59
.. nonce: 9H8rdY
.. section: IDLE

On Windows, change exit/quit message to suggest Ctrl-D, which works, instead
of <Ctrl-Z Return>, which does not work in IDLE.

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.. bpo: 44687
.. date: 2021-09-19-17-18-25
.. nonce: 3fqDRC
.. section: C API

:meth:`BufferedReader.peek` no longer raises :exc:`ValueError` when the
entire file has already been buffered.

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.. bpo: 44751
.. date: 2021-07-27-17-29-12
.. nonce: 4qmbDG
.. section: C API

Remove ``crypt.h`` include from the public ``Python.h`` header.