From f9774e57d84162ff0cba0b17a3dcdb93dfbce45e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 22:41:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 01/11] Python 3.12.0a6

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diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 7957220ed7cf9f..fd16421eace94a 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        12
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION        0
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       5
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       6
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.12.0a5+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.12.0a6"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index e7f403d3ffbf12..573065b4b714d9 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Feb  7 13:18:04 2023
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Mar  7 22:42:28 2023
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -2499,42 +2499,33 @@
              'alive\n'
              'until the next garbage collection occurs.\n'
              '\n'
-             'Before an "except" clause’s suite is executed, details about '
-             'the\n'
-             'exception are stored in the "sys" module and can be accessed '
-             'via\n'
-             '"sys.exc_info()". "sys.exc_info()" returns a 3-tuple consisting '
-             'of the\n'
-             'exception class, the exception instance and a traceback object '
-             '(see\n'
-             'section The standard type hierarchy) identifying the point in '
-             'the\n'
-             'program where the exception occurred.  The details about the '
-             'exception\n'
-             'accessed via "sys.exc_info()" are restored to their previous '
-             'values\n'
-             'when leaving an exception handler:\n'
+             'Before an "except" clause’s suite is executed, the exception is '
+             'stored\n'
+             'in the "sys" module, where it can be accessed from within the '
+             'body of\n'
+             'the "except" clause by calling "sys.exception()". When leaving '
+             'an\n'
+             'exception handler, the exception stored in the "sys" module is '
+             'reset\n'
+             'to its previous value:\n'
              '\n'
-             '   >>> print(sys.exc_info())\n'
-             '   (None, None, None)\n'
+             '   >>> print(sys.exception())\n'
+             '   None\n'
              '   >>> try:\n'
              '   ...     raise TypeError\n'
              '   ... except:\n'
-             '   ...     print(sys.exc_info())\n'
+             '   ...     print(repr(sys.exception()))\n'
              '   ...     try:\n'
              '   ...          raise ValueError\n'
              '   ...     except:\n'
-             '   ...         print(sys.exc_info())\n'
-             '   ...     print(sys.exc_info())\n'
+             '   ...         print(repr(sys.exception()))\n'
+             '   ...     print(repr(sys.exception()))\n'
              '   ...\n'
-             "   (<class 'TypeError'>, TypeError(), <traceback object at "
-             '0x10efad080>)\n'
-             "   (<class 'ValueError'>, ValueError(), <traceback object at "
-             '0x10efad040>)\n'
-             "   (<class 'TypeError'>, TypeError(), <traceback object at "
-             '0x10efad080>)\n'
-             '   >>> print(sys.exc_info())\n'
-             '   (None, None, None)\n'
+             '   TypeError()\n'
+             '   ValueError()\n'
+             '   TypeError()\n'
+             '   >>> print(sys.exception())\n'
+             '   None\n'
              '\n'
              '\n'
              '"except*" clause\n'
@@ -4533,7 +4524,7 @@
                   'objects and\n'
                   '   implements an "__eq__()" method, it should not '
                   'implement\n'
-                  '   "__hash__()", since the implementation of hashable '
+                  '   "__hash__()", since the implementation of *hashable* '
                   'collections\n'
                   '   requires that a key’s hash value is immutable (if the '
                   'object’s hash\n'
@@ -9453,7 +9444,7 @@
                  '   hashable collections.  If a class defines mutable objects '
                  'and\n'
                  '   implements an "__eq__()" method, it should not implement\n'
-                 '   "__hash__()", since the implementation of hashable '
+                 '   "__hash__()", since the implementation of *hashable* '
                  'collections\n'
                  '   requires that a key’s hash value is immutable (if the '
                  'object’s hash\n'
@@ -12644,37 +12635,31 @@
         'cycle with the stack frame, keeping all locals in that frame alive\n'
         'until the next garbage collection occurs.\n'
         '\n'
-        'Before an "except" clause’s suite is executed, details about the\n'
-        'exception are stored in the "sys" module and can be accessed via\n'
-        '"sys.exc_info()". "sys.exc_info()" returns a 3-tuple consisting of '
-        'the\n'
-        'exception class, the exception instance and a traceback object (see\n'
-        'section The standard type hierarchy) identifying the point in the\n'
-        'program where the exception occurred.  The details about the '
-        'exception\n'
-        'accessed via "sys.exc_info()" are restored to their previous values\n'
-        'when leaving an exception handler:\n'
+        'Before an "except" clause’s suite is executed, the exception is '
+        'stored\n'
+        'in the "sys" module, where it can be accessed from within the body '
+        'of\n'
+        'the "except" clause by calling "sys.exception()". When leaving an\n'
+        'exception handler, the exception stored in the "sys" module is reset\n'
+        'to its previous value:\n'
         '\n'
-        '   >>> print(sys.exc_info())\n'
-        '   (None, None, None)\n'
+        '   >>> print(sys.exception())\n'
+        '   None\n'
         '   >>> try:\n'
         '   ...     raise TypeError\n'
         '   ... except:\n'
-        '   ...     print(sys.exc_info())\n'
+        '   ...     print(repr(sys.exception()))\n'
         '   ...     try:\n'
         '   ...          raise ValueError\n'
         '   ...     except:\n'
-        '   ...         print(sys.exc_info())\n'
-        '   ...     print(sys.exc_info())\n'
+        '   ...         print(repr(sys.exception()))\n'
+        '   ...     print(repr(sys.exception()))\n'
         '   ...\n'
-        "   (<class 'TypeError'>, TypeError(), <traceback object at "
-        '0x10efad080>)\n'
-        "   (<class 'ValueError'>, ValueError(), <traceback object at "
-        '0x10efad040>)\n'
-        "   (<class 'TypeError'>, TypeError(), <traceback object at "
-        '0x10efad080>)\n'
-        '   >>> print(sys.exc_info())\n'
-        '   (None, None, None)\n'
+        '   TypeError()\n'
+        '   ValueError()\n'
+        '   TypeError()\n'
+        '   >>> print(sys.exception())\n'
+        '   None\n'
         '\n'
         '\n'
         '"except*" clause\n'
@@ -14408,7 +14393,7 @@
                  '   New in version 3.10.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'Keys views are set-like since their entries are unique and '
-                 'hashable.\n'
+                 '*hashable*.\n'
                  'If all values are hashable, so that "(key, value)" pairs are '
                  'unique\n'
                  'and hashable, then the items view is also set-like.  (Values '
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a6.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..2bcb4c8c854d4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0a6.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,821 @@
+.. date: 2023-02-17-10-42-48
+.. gh-issue: 99108
+.. nonce: MKA8-f
+.. release date: 2023-03-07
+.. section: Security
+
+Replace builtin hashlib implementations of MD5 and SHA1 with verified ones
+from the HACL* project.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-08-22-03-04
+.. gh-issue: 101727
+.. nonce: 9P5eZz
+.. section: Security
+
+Updated the OpenSSL version used in Windows and macOS binary release builds
+to 1.1.1t to address CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2022-4303, and CVE-2022-4303 per
+`the OpenSSL 2023-02-07 security advisory
+<https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt>`_.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-08-12-57-35
+.. gh-issue: 99108
+.. nonce: 6tnmhA
+.. section: Security
+
+Replace the builtin :mod:`hashlib` implementations of SHA2-384 and SHA2-512
+originally from LibTomCrypt with formally verified, side-channel resistant
+code from the `HACL* <https://github.com/hacl-star/hacl-star/>`_ project.
+The builtins remain a fallback only used when OpenSSL does not provide them.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-24-16-12-00
+.. gh-issue: 101283
+.. nonce: 9tqu39
+.. section: Security
+
+:class:`subprocess.Popen` now uses a safer approach to find ``cmd.exe`` when
+launching with ``shell=True``. Patch by Eryk Sun, based on a patch by Oleg
+Iarygin.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-03-07-16-56-28
+.. gh-issue: 102493
+.. nonce: gTXrcD
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix regression in semantics of normalisation in ``PyErr_SetObject``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-03-06-13-05-33
+.. gh-issue: 102416
+.. nonce: dz6K5f
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Do not memoize incorrectly automatically generated loop rules in the parser.
+Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-03-04-20-56-12
+.. gh-issue: 102356
+.. nonce: 07KvUd
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a bug that caused a crash when deallocating deeply nested filter
+objects. Patch by Marta Gómez Macías.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-28-21-17-03
+.. gh-issue: 102336
+.. nonce: -wL3Tm
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Cleanup Windows 7 specific special handling. Patch by Max Bachmann.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-26-23-10-32
+.. gh-issue: 102250
+.. nonce: 7MUKoC
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a segfault occurring when the interpreter calls a ``__bool__`` method
+that raises.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-24-17-59-39
+.. gh-issue: 102126
+.. nonce: HTT8Vc
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix deadlock at shutdown when clearing thread states if any finalizer tries
+to acquire the runtime head lock. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-22-15-15-32
+.. gh-issue: 102027
+.. nonce: Km4G-d
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Use ``GetCurrentProcessId`` on Windows when ``getpid`` is unavailable. Patch
+by Max Bachmann.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-20-15-18-33
+.. gh-issue: 102056
+.. nonce: uHKuwH
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix error handling bugs in interpreter's exception printing code, which
+could cause a crash on infinite recursion.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-17-10-12-13
+.. gh-issue: 100982
+.. nonce: mJGJQw
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Restrict the scope of the :opcode:`FOR_ITER_RANGE` instruction to the scope
+of the original :opcode:`FOR_ITER` instruction, to allow instrumentation.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-16-23-19-01
+.. gh-issue: 101967
+.. nonce: Kqr1dz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible segfault in ``positional_only_passed_as_keyword`` function,
+when new list created.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-16-16-57-23
+.. gh-issue: 101952
+.. nonce: Zo1dlq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible segfault in ``BUILD_SET`` opcode, when new set created.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-13-22-21-58
+.. gh-issue: 74895
+.. nonce: esMNtq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:mod:`socket.getaddrinfo` no longer raises :class:`OverflowError` for
+:class:`int` **port** values outside of the C long range. Out of range
+values are left up to the underlying string based C library API to report. A
+:class:`socket.gaierror` ``SAI_SERVICE`` may occur instead, or no error at
+all as not all platform C libraries generate an error.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-13-18-21-14
+.. gh-issue: 101799
+.. nonce: wpHbCn
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add :opcode:`CALL_INTRINSIC_2` and use it instead of
+:opcode:`PREP_RERAISE_STAR`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-12-22-40-22
+.. gh-issue: 101857
+.. nonce: _bribG
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix xattr support detection on Linux systems by widening the check to linux,
+not just glibc. This fixes support for musl.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-11-23-14-06
+.. gh-issue: 84783
+.. nonce: _P5sMa
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Make the slice object hashable.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-10-15-54-57
+.. gh-issue: 87849
+.. nonce: IUVvPz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Change the ``SEND`` instruction to leave the receiver on the stack. This
+allows the specialized form of ``SEND`` to skip the chain of C calls and
+jump directly to the ``RESUME`` in the generator or coroutine.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-10-07-21-47
+.. gh-issue: 101765
+.. nonce: MO5LlC
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix SystemError / segmentation fault in iter ``__reduce__`` when internal
+access of ``builtins.__dict__`` keys mutates the iter object.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-10-01-15-57
+.. gh-issue: 101430
+.. nonce: T3Gegb
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Update :mod:`tracemalloc` to handle presize of object properly. Patch by
+Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-08-17-13-31
+.. gh-issue: 101696
+.. nonce: seJhTt
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Invalidate type version tag in ``_PyStaticType_Dealloc`` for static types,
+avoiding bug where a false cache hit could crash the interpreter. Patch by
+Kumar Aditya.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-07-14-56-43
+.. gh-issue: 101632
+.. nonce: Fd1yxk
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Adds a new :opcode:`RETURN_CONST` instruction.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-04-12-49-33
+.. gh-issue: 100719
+.. nonce: uRPccL
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Remove gi_code field from generator (and coroutine and async generator)
+objects as it is redundant. The frame already includes a reference to the
+code object.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-11-02-20-23-47
+.. gh-issue: 98627
+.. nonce: VJkdRM
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+When an interpreter is configured to check (and only then), importing an
+extension module will now fail when the extension does not support multiple
+interpreters (i.e. doesn't implement PEP 489 multi-phase init). This does
+not apply to the main interpreter, nor to subinterpreters created with
+``Py_NewInterpreter()``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-03-04-14-46-47
+.. gh-issue: 102302
+.. nonce: -b_s6Z
+.. section: Library
+
+Micro-optimise hashing of :class:`inspect.Parameter`, reducing the time it
+takes to hash an instance by around 40%.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-28-09-52-25
+.. gh-issue: 101979
+.. nonce: or3hXV
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a bug where parentheses in the ``metavar`` argument to
+:meth:`argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument` were dropped. Patch by Yeojin
+Kim.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-26-12-37-17
+.. gh-issue: 91038
+.. nonce: S4rFH_
+.. section: Library
+
+:meth:`platform.platform` now has boolean default arguments.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-23-20-39-52
+.. gh-issue: 81652
+.. nonce: Vxz0Mr
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :data:`mmap.MAP_ALIGNED_SUPER` FreeBSD and :data:`mmap.MAP_CONCEAL`
+OpenBSD constants to :mod:`mmap`. Patch by Yeojin Kim.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-23-15-06-01
+.. gh-issue: 102179
+.. nonce: P6KQ4c
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :func:`os.dup2` error message for negative fds.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-21-10-05-33
+.. gh-issue: 101961
+.. nonce: 7e56jh
+.. section: Library
+
+For the binary mode, :func:`fileinput.hookcompressed` doesn't set the
+``encoding`` value even if the value is ``None``. Patch by Gihwan Kim.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-21-07-15-41
+.. gh-issue: 101936
+.. nonce: QVOxHH
+.. section: Library
+
+The default value of ``fp`` becomes :class:`io.BytesIO` if
+:exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError` is initialized without a designated ``fp``
+parameter. Patch by Long Vo.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-17-20-24-15
+.. gh-issue: 101566
+.. nonce: FjgWBt
+.. section: Library
+
+In zipfile, sync Path with `zipp 3.14
+<https://zipp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v3-14-0>`_, including
+fix for extractall on the underlying zipfile after being wrapped in
+``Path``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-17-19-00-58
+.. gh-issue: 97930
+.. nonce: C_nQjb
+.. section: Library
+
+Apply changes from `importlib_resources 5.12
+<https://importlib-resources.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v5-12-0>`_,
+including fix for ``MultiplexedPath`` to support directories in multiple
+namespaces (python/importlib_resources#265).
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-17-18-44-27
+.. gh-issue: 101997
+.. nonce: A6_blD
+.. section: Library
+
+Upgrade pip wheel bundled with ensurepip (pip 23.0.1)
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-15-01-54-06
+.. gh-issue: 99108
+.. nonce: rjTSic
+.. section: Library
+
+The built-in extension modules for :mod:`hashlib` SHA2 algorithms, used when
+OpenSSL does not provide them, now live in a single internal ``_sha2``
+module instead of separate ``_sha256`` and ``_sha512`` modules.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-14-09-08-48
+.. gh-issue: 101892
+.. nonce: FMos8l
+.. section: Library
+
+Callable iterators no longer raise :class:`SystemError` when the callable
+object exhausts the iterator but forgets to either return a sentinel value
+or raise :class:`StopIteration`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-13-12-55-48
+.. gh-issue: 87634
+.. nonce: q-SBhJ
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove locking behavior from :func:`functools.cached_property`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-11-13-23-29
+.. gh-issue: 97786
+.. nonce: QjvQ1B
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix potential undefined behaviour in corner cases of floating-point-to-time
+conversions.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-10-16-02-29
+.. gh-issue: 101517
+.. nonce: r7S2u8
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed bug where :mod:`bdb` looks up the source line with :mod:`linecache`
+with a ``lineno=None``, which causes it to fail with an unhandled exception.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-10-11-59-13
+.. gh-issue: 101773
+.. nonce: J_kI7y
+.. section: Library
+
+Optimize :class:`fractions.Fraction` for small components. The private
+argument ``_normalize`` of the :class:`fractions.Fraction` constructor has
+been removed.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-08-18-20-58
+.. gh-issue: 101693
+.. nonce: 4_LPXj
+.. section: Library
+
+In :meth:`sqlite3.Cursor.execute`, :exc:`DeprecationWarning` is now emitted
+when :ref:`named placeholders <sqlite3-placeholders>` are used together with
+parameters supplied as a :term:`sequence` instead of as a :class:`dict`.
+Starting from Python 3.14, using named placeholders with parameters supplied
+as a sequence will raise a :exc:`~sqlite3.ProgrammingError`. Patch by Erlend
+E. Aasland.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-07-22-21-46
+.. gh-issue: 101446
+.. nonce: -c0FdK
+.. section: Library
+
+Change repr of :class:`collections.OrderedDict` to use regular dictionary
+formating instead of pairs of keys and values.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-07-22-20-32
+.. gh-issue: 101362
+.. nonce: Jlk6mt
+.. section: Library
+
+Speed up :class:`pathlib.PurePath` construction by handling arguments more
+uniformly. When a :class:`pathlib.Path` argument is supplied, we use its
+string representation rather than joining its parts with
+:func:`os.path.join`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-07-21-16-41
+.. gh-issue: 101362
+.. nonce: KMQllM
+.. section: Library
+
+Speed up :class:`pathlib.PurePath` construction by calling
+:func:`os.path.join` only when two or more arguments are given.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-07-20-46-08
+.. gh-issue: 101362
+.. nonce: 2ckZ6R
+.. section: Library
+
+Speed up :class:`pathlib.Path` construction by running the path flavour
+compatibility check only when pathlib is imported.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-05-21-40-15
+.. gh-issue: 85984
+.. nonce: Kfzbb2
+.. section: Library
+
+Refactored the implementation of :func:`pty.fork` to use
+:func:`os.login_tty`.
+
+A :exc:`DeprecationWarning` is now raised by ``pty.master_open()`` and
+``pty.slave_open()``. They were undocumented and deprecated long long ago in
+the docstring in favor of :func:`pty.openpty`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-04-16-35-46
+.. gh-issue: 101561
+.. nonce: Xo6pIZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Add a new decorator :func:`typing.override`. See :pep:`698` for details.
+Patch by Steven Troxler.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-01-10-42-16
+.. gh-issue: 63301
+.. nonce: XNxSFh
+.. section: Library
+
+Set exit code when :mod:`tabnanny` CLI exits on error.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-27-02-53-50
+.. gh-issue: 101360
+.. nonce: bPB7SL
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix anchor matching in :meth:`pathlib.PureWindowsPath.match`. Path and
+pattern anchors are now matched with :mod:`fnmatch`, just like other path
+parts. This allows patterns such as ``"*:/Users/*"`` to be matched.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-25-00-14-52
+.. gh-issue: 101277
+.. nonce: FceHX7
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove global state from :mod:`itertools` module (:pep:`687`). Patches by
+Erlend E. Aasland.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-06-21-14-41
+.. gh-issue: 100809
+.. nonce: I697UT
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix handling of drive-relative paths (like 'C:' and 'C:foo') in
+:meth:`pathlib.Path.absolute`. This method now uses the OS API to retrieve
+the correct current working directory for the drive.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-02-22-41-44
+.. gh-issue: 99138
+.. nonce: 17hp9U
+.. section: Library
+
+Apply :pep:`687` to :mod:`zoneinfo`. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-10-22-09-26-43
+.. gh-issue: 96764
+.. nonce: Dh9Y5L
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`asyncio.wait_for` now uses :func:`asyncio.timeout` as its underlying
+implementation. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-09-05-12-17-34
+.. gh-issue: 88233
+.. nonce: gff9qJ
+.. section: Library
+
+Correctly preserve "extra" fields in ``zipfile`` regardless of their
+ordering relative to a zip64 "extra."
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23224
+.. date: 2018-06-20-09-12-21
+.. nonce: zxCQ13
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix segfaults when creating :class:`lzma.LZMADecompressor` and
+:class:`bz2.BZ2Decompressor` objects without calling ``__init__()``, and fix
+leakage of locks and internal buffers when calling the ``__init__()``
+methods of :class:`lzma.LZMADecompressor`, :class:`lzma.LZMACompressor`,
+:class:`bz2.BZ2Compressor`, and :class:`bz2.BZ2Decompressor` objects
+multiple times.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-19-10-33-01
+.. gh-issue: 85417
+.. nonce: kYO8u3
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Update :mod:`cmath` documentation to clarify behaviour on branch cuts.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-07-21-43-24
+.. gh-issue: 97725
+.. nonce: cuY7Cd
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix :meth:`asyncio.Task.print_stack` description for ``file=None``. Patch by
+Oleg Iarygin.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-18-10-51-02
+.. gh-issue: 102019
+.. nonce: 0797SJ
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix deadlock on shutdown if ``test_current_{exception,frames}`` fails. Patch
+by Jacob Bower.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-11-22-36-10
+.. gh-issue: 85984
+.. nonce: EVXjT9
+.. section: Tests
+
+Utilize new "winsize" functions from termios in pty tests.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-11-20-28-08
+.. gh-issue: 89792
+.. nonce: S-Y5BZ
+.. section: Tests
+
+``test_tools`` now copies up to 10x less source data to a temporary
+directory during the ``freeze`` test by ignoring git metadata and other
+artifacts.  It also limits its python build parallelism based on
+os.cpu_count instead of hard coding it as 8 cores.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-12-00-49-16
+.. gh-issue: 99942
+.. nonce: DUR8b4
+.. section: Build
+
+On Android, in a static build, python-config in embed mode no longer
+incorrectly reports a library to link to.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-12-20-01-06-17
+.. gh-issue: 99942
+.. nonce: lbmzYj
+.. section: Build
+
+On Android, python.pc now correctly reports the library to link to, the same
+as python-config.sh.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-12-18-08-33-28
+.. gh-issue: 100221
+.. nonce: K94Ct3
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix creating install directories in ``make sharedinstall`` if they exist
+outside ``DESTDIR`` already.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-09-14-10-38-15
+.. gh-issue: 96821
+.. nonce: Zk2a9c
+.. section: Build
+
+Explicitly mark C extension modules that need defined signed integer
+overflow, and add a configure option :option:`--with-strict-overflow`. Patch
+by Matthias Görgens and Shantanu Jain.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-03-01-01-36-39
+.. gh-issue: 102344
+.. nonce: Dgfux4
+.. section: Windows
+
+Implement ``winreg.QueryValue`` using ``QueryValueEx`` and
+``winreg.SetValue`` using ``SetValueEx``. Patch by Max Bachmann.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-15-11-08-10
+.. gh-issue: 101881
+.. nonce: fScr3m
+.. section: Windows
+
+Handle read and write operations on non-blocking pipes properly on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-13-18-05-49
+.. gh-issue: 101881
+.. nonce: _TnHzN
+.. section: Windows
+
+Add support for the os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions on
+Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-13-16-32-50
+.. gh-issue: 101849
+.. nonce: 7lm_53
+.. section: Windows
+
+Ensures installer will correctly upgrade existing ``py.exe`` launcher
+installs.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-10-14-26-05
+.. gh-issue: 101763
+.. nonce: RPaj7r
+.. section: Windows
+
+Updates copy of libffi bundled with Windows installs to 3.4.4.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-09-22-09-27
+.. gh-issue: 101759
+.. nonce: zFlqSH
+.. section: Windows
+
+Update Windows installer to SQLite 3.40.1.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-07-18-22-54
+.. gh-issue: 101614
+.. nonce: NjVP0n
+.. section: Windows
+
+Correctly handle extensions built against debug binaries that reference
+``python3_d.dll``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-25-11-33-54
+.. gh-issue: 101196
+.. nonce: wAX_2g
+.. section: Windows
+
+The functions ``os.path.isdir``, ``os.path.isfile``, ``os.path.islink`` and
+``os.path.exists`` are now 13% to 28% faster on Windows, by making fewer
+Win32 API calls.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-09-22-07-17
+.. gh-issue: 101759
+.. nonce: B0JP2H
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer to SQLite 3.40.1.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-14-15-53-01
+.. gh-issue: 101907
+.. nonce: HgF1N2
+.. section: C API
+
+Removes use of non-standard C++ extension in public header files.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-09-10-38-20
+.. gh-issue: 99293
+.. nonce: mFqfpp
+.. section: C API
+
+Document that the Py_TPFLAGS_VALID_VERSION_TAG is an internal feature,
+should not be used, and will be removed.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-06-16-14-30
+.. gh-issue: 101578
+.. nonce: PW5fA9
+.. section: C API
+
+Add :c:func:`PyErr_GetRaisedException` and
+:c:func:`PyErr_SetRaisedException` for saving and restoring the current
+exception. These functions return and accept a single exception object,
+rather than the triple arguments of the now-deprecated :c:func:`PyErr_Fetch`
+and :c:func:`PyErr_Restore`. This is less error prone and a bit more
+efficient.
+
+Add :c:func:`PyException_GetArgs` and :c:func:`PyException_SetArgs` as
+convenience functions for retrieving and modifying the
+:attr:`~BaseException.args` passed to the exception's constructor.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-04-21-17-25-22
+.. gh-issue: 91744
+.. nonce: FgvaMi
+.. section: C API
+
+Introduced the *Unstable C API tier*, marking APi that is allowed to change
+in minor releases without a deprecation period. See :pep:`689` for details.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-14-10-38-15.gh-issue-96821.Zk2a9c.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-14-10-38-15.gh-issue-96821.Zk2a9c.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 865cfde8b06359..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-14-10-38-15.gh-issue-96821.Zk2a9c.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Explicitly mark C extension modules that need defined signed integer overflow,
-and add a configure option :option:`--with-strict-overflow`.
-Patch by Matthias Görgens and Shantanu Jain.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-12-18-08-33-28.gh-issue-100221.K94Ct3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-12-18-08-33-28.gh-issue-100221.K94Ct3.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 27c948330cfc17..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-12-18-08-33-28.gh-issue-100221.K94Ct3.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix creating install directories in ``make sharedinstall`` if they exist
-outside ``DESTDIR`` already.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-12-20-01-06-17.gh-issue-99942.lbmzYj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-12-20-01-06-17.gh-issue-99942.lbmzYj.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 63a640a9cdf733..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-12-20-01-06-17.gh-issue-99942.lbmzYj.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-On Android, python.pc now correctly reports the library to link to, the same
-as python-config.sh.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-01-12-00-49-16.gh-issue-99942.DUR8b4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-01-12-00-49-16.gh-issue-99942.DUR8b4.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b692c3cc458c5..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-01-12-00-49-16.gh-issue-99942.DUR8b4.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-On Android, in a static build, python-config in embed mode no longer
-incorrectly reports a library to link to.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2022-04-21-17-25-22.gh-issue-91744.FgvaMi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2022-04-21-17-25-22.gh-issue-91744.FgvaMi.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 20db25ddd0c1f6..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2022-04-21-17-25-22.gh-issue-91744.FgvaMi.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Introduced the *Unstable C API tier*, marking APi that is allowed to change
-in minor releases without a deprecation period.
-See :pep:`689` for details.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-06-16-14-30.gh-issue-101578.PW5fA9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-06-16-14-30.gh-issue-101578.PW5fA9.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 27294a9e5179c4..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-06-16-14-30.gh-issue-101578.PW5fA9.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Add :c:func:`PyErr_GetRaisedException` and :c:func:`PyErr_SetRaisedException`
-for saving and restoring the current exception.
-These functions return and accept a single exception object,
-rather than the triple arguments of the now-deprecated
-:c:func:`PyErr_Fetch` and :c:func:`PyErr_Restore`.
-This is less error prone and a bit more efficient.
-
-Add :c:func:`PyException_GetArgs` and :c:func:`PyException_SetArgs`
-as convenience functions for retrieving and modifying
-the :attr:`~BaseException.args` passed to the exception's constructor.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-09-10-38-20.gh-issue-99293.mFqfpp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-09-10-38-20.gh-issue-99293.mFqfpp.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c0f05543747dc..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-09-10-38-20.gh-issue-99293.mFqfpp.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Document that the Py_TPFLAGS_VALID_VERSION_TAG is an internal feature,
-should not be used, and will be removed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-14-15-53-01.gh-issue-101907.HgF1N2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-14-15-53-01.gh-issue-101907.HgF1N2.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index cfc0d72cdbca00..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-02-14-15-53-01.gh-issue-101907.HgF1N2.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Removes use of non-standard C++ extension in public header files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-11-02-20-23-47.gh-issue-98627.VJkdRM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-11-02-20-23-47.gh-issue-98627.VJkdRM.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d2d6f6eb0c41f..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-11-02-20-23-47.gh-issue-98627.VJkdRM.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-When an interpreter is configured to check (and only then), importing an
-extension module will now fail when the extension does not support multiple
-interpreters (i.e. doesn't implement PEP 489 multi-phase init). This does
-not apply to the main interpreter, nor to subinterpreters created with
-``Py_NewInterpreter()``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-04-12-49-33.gh-issue-100719.uRPccL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-04-12-49-33.gh-issue-100719.uRPccL.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2addef27b8ea4d..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-04-12-49-33.gh-issue-100719.uRPccL.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Remove gi_code field from generator (and coroutine and async generator)
-objects as it is redundant. The frame already includes a reference to the
-code object.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-07-14-56-43.gh-issue-101632.Fd1yxk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-07-14-56-43.gh-issue-101632.Fd1yxk.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 136909ca699903..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-07-14-56-43.gh-issue-101632.Fd1yxk.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Adds a new :opcode:`RETURN_CONST` instruction.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-08-17-13-31.gh-issue-101696.seJhTt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-08-17-13-31.gh-issue-101696.seJhTt.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index ff2bbb4b564252..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-08-17-13-31.gh-issue-101696.seJhTt.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Invalidate type version tag in ``_PyStaticType_Dealloc`` for static types, avoiding bug where a false cache hit could crash the interpreter. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-01-15-57.gh-issue-101430.T3Gegb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-01-15-57.gh-issue-101430.T3Gegb.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e617d85242144e..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-01-15-57.gh-issue-101430.T3Gegb.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Update :mod:`tracemalloc` to handle presize of object properly. Patch by
-Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-07-21-47.gh-issue-101765.MO5LlC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-07-21-47.gh-issue-101765.MO5LlC.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index cc99779a944ec6..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-07-21-47.gh-issue-101765.MO5LlC.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix SystemError / segmentation fault in iter ``__reduce__`` when internal access of ``builtins.__dict__`` keys mutates the iter object.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-15-54-57.gh-issue-87849.IUVvPz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-15-54-57.gh-issue-87849.IUVvPz.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index da5f3ff79fd575..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-10-15-54-57.gh-issue-87849.IUVvPz.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Change the ``SEND`` instruction to leave the receiver on the stack. This
-allows the specialized form of ``SEND`` to skip the chain of C calls and jump
-directly to the ``RESUME`` in the generator or coroutine.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-11-23-14-06.gh-issue-84783._P5sMa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-11-23-14-06.gh-issue-84783._P5sMa.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e1c851a0825a7f..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-11-23-14-06.gh-issue-84783._P5sMa.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Make the slice object hashable.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-12-22-40-22.gh-issue-101857._bribG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-12-22-40-22.gh-issue-101857._bribG.rst
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index 832cc300fa9433..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-12-22-40-22.gh-issue-101857._bribG.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix xattr support detection on Linux systems by widening the check to linux, not just glibc. This fixes support for musl.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-13-18-21-14.gh-issue-101799.wpHbCn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-13-18-21-14.gh-issue-101799.wpHbCn.rst
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index 3233a573be7acd..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-13-18-21-14.gh-issue-101799.wpHbCn.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Add :opcode:`CALL_INTRINSIC_2` and use it instead of
-:opcode:`PREP_RERAISE_STAR`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-13-22-21-58.gh-issue-74895.esMNtq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-13-22-21-58.gh-issue-74895.esMNtq.rst
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index adbbb601634a60..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-13-22-21-58.gh-issue-74895.esMNtq.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-:mod:`socket.getaddrinfo` no longer raises :class:`OverflowError` for
-:class:`int` **port** values outside of the C long range. Out of range values
-are left up to the underlying string based C library API to report. A
-:class:`socket.gaierror` ``SAI_SERVICE`` may occur instead, or no error at all
-as not all platform C libraries generate an error.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-16-16-57-23.gh-issue-101952.Zo1dlq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-16-16-57-23.gh-issue-101952.Zo1dlq.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 3902c988c8bf9f..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-16-16-57-23.gh-issue-101952.Zo1dlq.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix possible segfault in ``BUILD_SET`` opcode, when new set created.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-16-23-19-01.gh-issue-101967.Kqr1dz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-16-23-19-01.gh-issue-101967.Kqr1dz.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e681f910f5359..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-16-23-19-01.gh-issue-101967.Kqr1dz.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix possible segfault in ``positional_only_passed_as_keyword`` function, when new list created.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-17-10-12-13.gh-issue-100982.mJGJQw.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-17-10-12-13.gh-issue-100982.mJGJQw.rst
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index 53bbc860c53f37..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-17-10-12-13.gh-issue-100982.mJGJQw.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Restrict the scope of the :opcode:`FOR_ITER_RANGE` instruction to the scope of the
-original :opcode:`FOR_ITER` instruction, to allow instrumentation.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-20-15-18-33.gh-issue-102056.uHKuwH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-20-15-18-33.gh-issue-102056.uHKuwH.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 78cd525b365fe5..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-20-15-18-33.gh-issue-102056.uHKuwH.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix error handling bugs in interpreter's exception printing code, which could cause a crash on infinite recursion.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-22-15-15-32.gh-issue-102027.Km4G-d.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-22-15-15-32.gh-issue-102027.Km4G-d.rst
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index 514a8ef26594dc..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-22-15-15-32.gh-issue-102027.Km4G-d.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Use ``GetCurrentProcessId`` on Windows when ``getpid`` is unavailable. Patch by
-Max Bachmann.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-24-17-59-39.gh-issue-102126.HTT8Vc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-24-17-59-39.gh-issue-102126.HTT8Vc.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 68c43688c3df03..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-24-17-59-39.gh-issue-102126.HTT8Vc.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix deadlock at shutdown when clearing thread states if any finalizer tries to acquire the runtime head lock. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-26-23-10-32.gh-issue-102250.7MUKoC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-26-23-10-32.gh-issue-102250.7MUKoC.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 17ab0cd4367991..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-26-23-10-32.gh-issue-102250.7MUKoC.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed a segfault occurring when the interpreter calls a ``__bool__`` method that raises.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-28-21-17-03.gh-issue-102336.-wL3Tm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-28-21-17-03.gh-issue-102336.-wL3Tm.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c3e4bd4b86094..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-02-28-21-17-03.gh-issue-102336.-wL3Tm.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Cleanup Windows 7 specific special handling. Patch by Max Bachmann.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-04-20-56-12.gh-issue-102356.07KvUd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-04-20-56-12.gh-issue-102356.07KvUd.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index c03fd5266bc301..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-04-20-56-12.gh-issue-102356.07KvUd.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug that caused a crash when deallocating deeply nested filter
-objects. Patch by Marta Gómez Macías.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-06-13-05-33.gh-issue-102416.dz6K5f.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-06-13-05-33.gh-issue-102416.dz6K5f.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ffc67cfb7ed56..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-06-13-05-33.gh-issue-102416.dz6K5f.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Do not memoize incorrectly automatically generated loop rules in the parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-07-16-56-28.gh-issue-102493.gTXrcD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-07-16-56-28.gh-issue-102493.gTXrcD.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-07-16-56-28.gh-issue-102493.gTXrcD.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix regression in semantics of normalisation in ``PyErr_SetObject``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-02-07-21-43-24.gh-issue-97725.cuY7Cd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-02-07-21-43-24.gh-issue-97725.cuY7Cd.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index fd9ea049c23968..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-02-07-21-43-24.gh-issue-97725.cuY7Cd.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix :meth:`asyncio.Task.print_stack` description for ``file=None``.
-Patch by Oleg Iarygin.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-02-19-10-33-01.gh-issue-85417.kYO8u3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-02-19-10-33-01.gh-issue-85417.kYO8u3.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-02-19-10-33-01.gh-issue-85417.kYO8u3.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update :mod:`cmath` documentation to clarify behaviour on branch cuts.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-20-09-12-21.bpo-23224.zxCQ13.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-20-09-12-21.bpo-23224.zxCQ13.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-20-09-12-21.bpo-23224.zxCQ13.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fix segfaults when creating :class:`lzma.LZMADecompressor` and
-:class:`bz2.BZ2Decompressor` objects without calling ``__init__()``, and fix
-leakage of locks and internal buffers when calling the ``__init__()``
-methods of :class:`lzma.LZMADecompressor`, :class:`lzma.LZMACompressor`,
-:class:`bz2.BZ2Compressor`, and :class:`bz2.BZ2Decompressor` objects
-multiple times.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-09-05-12-17-34.gh-issue-88233.gff9qJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-09-05-12-17-34.gh-issue-88233.gff9qJ.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Correctly preserve "extra" fields in ``zipfile`` regardless of their
-ordering relative to a zip64 "extra."
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-10-22-09-26-43.gh-issue-96764.Dh9Y5L.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-10-22-09-26-43.gh-issue-96764.Dh9Y5L.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-10-22-09-26-43.gh-issue-96764.Dh9Y5L.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-:func:`asyncio.wait_for` now uses :func:`asyncio.timeout` as its underlying implementation. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-02-22-41-44.gh-issue-99138.17hp9U.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-02-22-41-44.gh-issue-99138.17hp9U.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-02-22-41-44.gh-issue-99138.17hp9U.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Apply :pep:`687` to :mod:`zoneinfo`. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-06-21-14-41.gh-issue-100809.I697UT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-06-21-14-41.gh-issue-100809.I697UT.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-06-21-14-41.gh-issue-100809.I697UT.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix handling of drive-relative paths (like 'C:' and 'C:foo') in
-:meth:`pathlib.Path.absolute`. This method now uses the OS API
-to retrieve the correct current working directory for the drive.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-25-00-14-52.gh-issue-101277.FceHX7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-25-00-14-52.gh-issue-101277.FceHX7.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-25-00-14-52.gh-issue-101277.FceHX7.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Remove global state from :mod:`itertools` module (:pep:`687`). Patches by
-Erlend E. Aasland.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-27-02-53-50.gh-issue-101360.bPB7SL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-27-02-53-50.gh-issue-101360.bPB7SL.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-27-02-53-50.gh-issue-101360.bPB7SL.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix anchor matching in :meth:`pathlib.PureWindowsPath.match`. Path and
-pattern anchors are now matched with :mod:`fnmatch`, just like other path
-parts. This allows patterns such as ``"*:/Users/*"`` to be matched.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-01-10-42-16.gh-issue-63301.XNxSFh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-01-10-42-16.gh-issue-63301.XNxSFh.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-01-10-42-16.gh-issue-63301.XNxSFh.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Set exit code when :mod:`tabnanny` CLI exits on error.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-04-16-35-46.gh-issue-101561.Xo6pIZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-04-16-35-46.gh-issue-101561.Xo6pIZ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-04-16-35-46.gh-issue-101561.Xo6pIZ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add a new decorator :func:`typing.override`. See :pep:`698` for details. Patch by Steven Troxler.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-05-21-40-15.gh-issue-85984.Kfzbb2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-05-21-40-15.gh-issue-85984.Kfzbb2.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-05-21-40-15.gh-issue-85984.Kfzbb2.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Refactored the implementation of :func:`pty.fork` to use :func:`os.login_tty`.
-
-A :exc:`DeprecationWarning` is now raised by ``pty.master_open()`` and ``pty.slave_open()``. They were
-undocumented and deprecated long long ago in the docstring in favor of :func:`pty.openpty`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-20-46-08.gh-issue-101362.2ckZ6R.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-20-46-08.gh-issue-101362.2ckZ6R.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Speed up :class:`pathlib.Path` construction by running the path flavour
-compatibility check only when pathlib is imported.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-21-16-41.gh-issue-101362.KMQllM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-21-16-41.gh-issue-101362.KMQllM.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-21-16-41.gh-issue-101362.KMQllM.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Speed up :class:`pathlib.PurePath` construction by calling
-:func:`os.path.join` only when two or more arguments are given.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-22-20-32.gh-issue-101362.Jlk6mt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-22-20-32.gh-issue-101362.Jlk6mt.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-22-20-32.gh-issue-101362.Jlk6mt.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Speed up :class:`pathlib.PurePath` construction by handling arguments more
-uniformly. When a :class:`pathlib.Path` argument is supplied,
-we use its string representation rather than joining its parts
-with :func:`os.path.join`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-22-21-46.gh-issue-101446.-c0FdK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-22-21-46.gh-issue-101446.-c0FdK.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-22-21-46.gh-issue-101446.-c0FdK.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Change repr of :class:`collections.OrderedDict` to use regular dictionary
-formating instead of pairs of keys and values.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-08-18-20-58.gh-issue-101693.4_LPXj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-08-18-20-58.gh-issue-101693.4_LPXj.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-08-18-20-58.gh-issue-101693.4_LPXj.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-In :meth:`sqlite3.Cursor.execute`, :exc:`DeprecationWarning` is now emitted
-when :ref:`named placeholders <sqlite3-placeholders>` are used together with
-parameters supplied as a :term:`sequence` instead of as a :class:`dict`.
-Starting from Python 3.14, using named placeholders with parameters supplied
-as a sequence will raise a :exc:`~sqlite3.ProgrammingError`.
-Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-10-11-59-13.gh-issue-101773.J_kI7y.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-10-11-59-13.gh-issue-101773.J_kI7y.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-10-11-59-13.gh-issue-101773.J_kI7y.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Optimize :class:`fractions.Fraction` for small components. The private argument
-``_normalize`` of the :class:`fractions.Fraction` constructor has been removed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-10-16-02-29.gh-issue-101517.r7S2u8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-10-16-02-29.gh-issue-101517.r7S2u8.rst
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index a5f6bdfa5ac2f0..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-10-16-02-29.gh-issue-101517.r7S2u8.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed bug where :mod:`bdb` looks up the source line with :mod:`linecache` with a ``lineno=None``, which causes it to fail with an unhandled exception.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-11-13-23-29.gh-issue-97786.QjvQ1B.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-11-13-23-29.gh-issue-97786.QjvQ1B.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-11-13-23-29.gh-issue-97786.QjvQ1B.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix potential undefined behaviour in corner cases of floating-point-to-time
-conversions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-13-12-55-48.gh-issue-87634.q-SBhJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-13-12-55-48.gh-issue-87634.q-SBhJ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-13-12-55-48.gh-issue-87634.q-SBhJ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove locking behavior from :func:`functools.cached_property`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-14-09-08-48.gh-issue-101892.FMos8l.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-14-09-08-48.gh-issue-101892.FMos8l.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-14-09-08-48.gh-issue-101892.FMos8l.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Callable iterators no longer raise :class:`SystemError` when the
-callable object exhausts the iterator but forgets to either return a
-sentinel value or raise :class:`StopIteration`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-15-01-54-06.gh-issue-99108.rjTSic.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-15-01-54-06.gh-issue-99108.rjTSic.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-15-01-54-06.gh-issue-99108.rjTSic.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The built-in extension modules for :mod:`hashlib` SHA2 algorithms, used when
-OpenSSL does not provide them, now live in a single internal ``_sha2`` module
-instead of separate ``_sha256`` and ``_sha512`` modules.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-17-18-44-27.gh-issue-101997.A6_blD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-17-18-44-27.gh-issue-101997.A6_blD.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-17-18-44-27.gh-issue-101997.A6_blD.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Upgrade pip wheel bundled with ensurepip (pip 23.0.1)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-17-19-00-58.gh-issue-97930.C_nQjb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-17-19-00-58.gh-issue-97930.C_nQjb.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-17-19-00-58.gh-issue-97930.C_nQjb.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Apply changes from `importlib_resources 5.12
-<https://importlib-resources.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v5-12-0>`_,
-including fix for ``MultiplexedPath`` to support directories in multiple
-namespaces (python/importlib_resources#265).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-17-20-24-15.gh-issue-101566.FjgWBt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-17-20-24-15.gh-issue-101566.FjgWBt.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-In zipfile, sync Path with `zipp 3.14
-<https://zipp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v3-14-0>`_, including
-fix for extractall on the underlying zipfile after being wrapped in
-``Path``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-21-07-15-41.gh-issue-101936.QVOxHH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-21-07-15-41.gh-issue-101936.QVOxHH.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-21-07-15-41.gh-issue-101936.QVOxHH.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The default value of ``fp`` becomes :class:`io.BytesIO` if :exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError`
-is initialized without a designated ``fp`` parameter. Patch by Long Vo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-21-10-05-33.gh-issue-101961.7e56jh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-21-10-05-33.gh-issue-101961.7e56jh.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-For the binary mode, :func:`fileinput.hookcompressed` doesn't set the ``encoding`` value
-even if the value is ``None``. Patch by Gihwan Kim.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-23-15-06-01.gh-issue-102179.P6KQ4c.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-23-15-06-01.gh-issue-102179.P6KQ4c.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-23-15-06-01.gh-issue-102179.P6KQ4c.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix :func:`os.dup2` error message for negative fds.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-23-20-39-52.gh-issue-81652.Vxz0Mr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-23-20-39-52.gh-issue-81652.Vxz0Mr.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-23-20-39-52.gh-issue-81652.Vxz0Mr.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Add :data:`mmap.MAP_ALIGNED_SUPER` FreeBSD and :data:`mmap.MAP_CONCEAL`
-OpenBSD constants to :mod:`mmap`. Patch by Yeojin Kim.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-26-12-37-17.gh-issue-91038.S4rFH_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-26-12-37-17.gh-issue-91038.S4rFH_.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-26-12-37-17.gh-issue-91038.S4rFH_.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-:meth:`platform.platform` now has boolean default arguments.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-28-09-52-25.gh-issue-101979.or3hXV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-28-09-52-25.gh-issue-101979.or3hXV.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-28-09-52-25.gh-issue-101979.or3hXV.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug where parentheses in the ``metavar`` argument to :meth:`argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument` were
-dropped. Patch by Yeojin Kim.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-03-04-14-46-47.gh-issue-102302.-b_s6Z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-03-04-14-46-47.gh-issue-102302.-b_s6Z.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-03-04-14-46-47.gh-issue-102302.-b_s6Z.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Micro-optimise hashing of :class:`inspect.Parameter`, reducing the time it takes to hash an instance by around 40%.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-01-24-16-12-00.gh-issue-101283.9tqu39.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-01-24-16-12-00.gh-issue-101283.9tqu39.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-01-24-16-12-00.gh-issue-101283.9tqu39.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-:class:`subprocess.Popen` now uses a safer approach to find
-``cmd.exe`` when launching with ``shell=True``. Patch by Eryk Sun,
-based on a patch by Oleg Iarygin.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-08-12-57-35.gh-issue-99108.6tnmhA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-08-12-57-35.gh-issue-99108.6tnmhA.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-08-12-57-35.gh-issue-99108.6tnmhA.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Replace the builtin :mod:`hashlib` implementations of SHA2-384 and SHA2-512
-originally from LibTomCrypt with formally verified, side-channel resistant
-code from the `HACL* <https://github.com/hacl-star/hacl-star/>`_ project.
-The builtins remain a fallback only used when OpenSSL does not provide them.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-08-22-03-04.gh-issue-101727.9P5eZz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-08-22-03-04.gh-issue-101727.9P5eZz.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-08-22-03-04.gh-issue-101727.9P5eZz.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Updated the OpenSSL version used in Windows and macOS binary release builds
-to 1.1.1t to address CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2022-4303, and CVE-2022-4303 per
-`the OpenSSL 2023-02-07 security advisory
-<https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt>`_.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-17-10-42-48.gh-issue-99108.MKA8-f.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-17-10-42-48.gh-issue-99108.MKA8-f.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-02-17-10-42-48.gh-issue-99108.MKA8-f.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Replace builtin hashlib implementations of MD5 and SHA1 with verified ones
-from the HACL* project.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-11-20-28-08.gh-issue-89792.S-Y5BZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-11-20-28-08.gh-issue-89792.S-Y5BZ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-11-20-28-08.gh-issue-89792.S-Y5BZ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-``test_tools`` now copies up to 10x less source data to a temporary directory
-during the ``freeze`` test by ignoring git metadata and other artifacts.  It
-also limits its python build parallelism based on os.cpu_count instead of hard
-coding it as 8 cores.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-11-22-36-10.gh-issue-85984.EVXjT9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-11-22-36-10.gh-issue-85984.EVXjT9.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-11-22-36-10.gh-issue-85984.EVXjT9.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Utilize new "winsize" functions from termios in pty tests.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-18-10-51-02.gh-issue-102019.0797SJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-18-10-51-02.gh-issue-102019.0797SJ.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 63e36046d26dfe..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-02-18-10-51-02.gh-issue-102019.0797SJ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix deadlock on shutdown if ``test_current_{exception,frames}`` fails. Patch
-by Jacob Bower.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-01-25-11-33-54.gh-issue-101196.wAX_2g.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-01-25-11-33-54.gh-issue-101196.wAX_2g.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index c61e9b90fb5373..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-01-25-11-33-54.gh-issue-101196.wAX_2g.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The functions ``os.path.isdir``, ``os.path.isfile``, ``os.path.islink`` and
-``os.path.exists`` are now 13% to 28% faster on Windows, by making fewer Win32
-API calls.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-07-18-22-54.gh-issue-101614.NjVP0n.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-07-18-22-54.gh-issue-101614.NjVP0n.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ed0995d78925b..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-07-18-22-54.gh-issue-101614.NjVP0n.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Correctly handle extensions built against debug binaries that reference ``python3_d.dll``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-09-22-09-27.gh-issue-101759.zFlqSH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-09-22-09-27.gh-issue-101759.zFlqSH.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 62bcac34397d2e..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-09-22-09-27.gh-issue-101759.zFlqSH.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update Windows installer to SQLite 3.40.1.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-10-14-26-05.gh-issue-101763.RPaj7r.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-10-14-26-05.gh-issue-101763.RPaj7r.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e7e5a73afeb532..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-10-14-26-05.gh-issue-101763.RPaj7r.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Updates copy of libffi bundled with Windows installs to 3.4.4.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-13-16-32-50.gh-issue-101849.7lm_53.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-13-16-32-50.gh-issue-101849.7lm_53.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 861d4de9f9a650..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-13-16-32-50.gh-issue-101849.7lm_53.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Ensures installer will correctly upgrade existing ``py.exe`` launcher installs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-13-18-05-49.gh-issue-101881._TnHzN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-13-18-05-49.gh-issue-101881._TnHzN.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index ba58dd4f5cb450..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-13-18-05-49.gh-issue-101881._TnHzN.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add support for the os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions on Windows.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-15-11-08-10.gh-issue-101881.fScr3m.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-15-11-08-10.gh-issue-101881.fScr3m.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 099b2c1c07a665..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-02-15-11-08-10.gh-issue-101881.fScr3m.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Handle read and write operations on non-blocking pipes properly on Windows.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-03-01-01-36-39.gh-issue-102344.Dgfux4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-03-01-01-36-39.gh-issue-102344.Dgfux4.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 4804212be8182c..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-03-01-01-36-39.gh-issue-102344.Dgfux4.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Implement ``winreg.QueryValue`` using ``QueryValueEx`` and
-``winreg.SetValue`` using ``SetValueEx``. Patch by Max Bachmann.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2023-02-09-22-07-17.gh-issue-101759.B0JP2H.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2023-02-09-22-07-17.gh-issue-101759.B0JP2H.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index fc53d08bffc4fd..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2023-02-09-22-07-17.gh-issue-101759.B0JP2H.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update macOS installer to SQLite 3.40.1.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index b1756e20c141ab..6923b692f6c971 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 3.12.0 alpha 5
+This is Python version 3.12.0 alpha 6
 =====================================
 
 .. image:: https://github.com/python/cpython/workflows/Tests/badge.svg

From e499680100a9d4fa4b673cbcfebc32212b4f848a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 09:09:50 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 02/11] fix typo in async generator code field name `ag_code`
 (#102448)

---
 Objects/genobject.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Objects/genobject.c b/Objects/genobject.c
index 4ab6581e12ab3a..be08a59ece6b7e 100644
--- a/Objects/genobject.c
+++ b/Objects/genobject.c
@@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ ag_getframe(PyAsyncGenObject *ag, void *Py_UNUSED(ignored))
 static PyObject *
 ag_getcode(PyGenObject *gen, void *Py_UNUSED(ignored))
 {
-    return _gen_getcode(gen, "ag__code");
+    return _gen_getcode(gen, "ag_code");
 }
 
 static PyGetSetDef async_gen_getsetlist[] = {

From 02b9a921cb3e6308ad300ee9c398b24998220931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 05:04:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 03/11] Post 3.12.0a6

---
 Include/patchlevel.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index fd16421eace94a..049cdfa30897ca 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       6
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.12.0a6"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.12.0a6+"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.

From 061325e0d2bbec6ff89d03f527c91dc7bfa14003 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcin Wieczorek <marcin@marcin.co>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 08:25:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 04/11] Fix style in argparse.rst (#101733)

---
 Doc/library/argparse.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 34b4c61649b99f..ee68ac58d3de75 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ around an instance of :class:`argparse.ArgumentParser`.  It is a container for
 argument specifications and has options that apply to the parser as whole::
 
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
-                       prog = 'ProgramName',
-                       description = 'What the program does',
-                       epilog = 'Text at the bottom of help')
+                       prog='ProgramName',
+                       description='What the program does',
+                       epilog='Text at the bottom of help')
 
 The :meth:`ArgumentParser.add_argument` method attaches individual argument
 specifications to the parser.  It supports positional arguments, options that

From 1a84cc007e207f2dd61f86a7fc3d86632fdce72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 13:29:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 05/11] GH-102397: Fix segfault from race condition in signal
 handling (#102399)

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
---
 Lib/test/test_signal.py                           | 15 +++++++++++++++
 ...2023-03-04-06-48-34.gh-issue-102397.ACJaOf.rst |  2 ++
 Modules/signalmodule.c                            |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-04-06-48-34.gh-issue-102397.ACJaOf.rst

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index 2562a57ea421ff..25afd6aabe0751 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_signal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
@@ -1406,6 +1406,21 @@ def handler(a, b):
         signal.raise_signal(signal.SIGINT)
         self.assertTrue(is_ok)
 
+    def test__thread_interrupt_main(self):
+        # See https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/102397
+        code = """if 1:
+        import _thread
+        class Foo():
+            def __del__(self):
+                _thread.interrupt_main()
+
+        x = Foo()
+        """
+
+        rc, out, err = assert_python_ok('-c', code)
+        self.assertIn(b'OSError: Signal 2 ignored due to race condition', err)
+
+
 
 class PidfdSignalTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-04-06-48-34.gh-issue-102397.ACJaOf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-04-06-48-34.gh-issue-102397.ACJaOf.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..db0b3f32c2ec0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-04-06-48-34.gh-issue-102397.ACJaOf.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix segfault from race condition in signal handling during garbage collection.
+Patch by Kumar Aditya.
diff --git a/Modules/signalmodule.c b/Modules/signalmodule.c
index cd26eca351c0ed..0e472e1ee4f9dd 100644
--- a/Modules/signalmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/signalmodule.c
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ get_signal_state(PyObject *module)
 static inline int
 compare_handler(PyObject *func, PyObject *dfl_ign_handler)
 {
+    // See https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/102399
+    if (func == NULL || dfl_ign_handler == NULL) {
+        return 0;
+    }
     assert(PyLong_CheckExact(dfl_ign_handler));
     if (!PyLong_CheckExact(func)) {
         return 0;

From 1f557f94c2ee98c2a43bd090a7bf3f39a22ed874 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikita Sobolev <mail@sobolevn.me>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 11:19:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 06/11] gh-101100: Fix sphinx warnings in `zipapp` and
 `zipfile` modules (#102526)

---
 Doc/library/zipapp.rst  | 2 +-
 Doc/library/zipfile.rst | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/zipapp.rst b/Doc/library/zipapp.rst
index fb40a2b3e964e4..981020b13cd988 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipapp.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipapp.rst
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ using the :func:`create_archive` function::
    >>> import zipapp
    >>> zipapp.create_archive('old_archive.pyz', 'new_archive.pyz', '/usr/bin/python3')
 
-To update the file in place, do the replacement in memory using a :class:`BytesIO`
+To update the file in place, do the replacement in memory using a :class:`~io.BytesIO`
 object, and then overwrite the source afterwards.  Note that there is a risk
 when overwriting a file in place that an error will result in the loss of
 the original file.  This code does not protect against such errors, but
diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
index 0195abc3a992c1..e2a085d6e98e67 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ ZipFile Objects
    (``ZipExtFile``) is read-only and provides the following methods:
    :meth:`~io.BufferedIOBase.read`, :meth:`~io.IOBase.readline`,
    :meth:`~io.IOBase.readlines`, :meth:`~io.IOBase.seek`,
-   :meth:`~io.IOBase.tell`, :meth:`__iter__`, :meth:`~iterator.__next__`.
+   :meth:`~io.IOBase.tell`, :meth:`~container.__iter__`, :meth:`~iterator.__next__`.
    These objects can operate independently of the ZipFile.
 
    With ``mode='w'``, a writable file handle is returned, which supports the

From 7d801f245e2021d19daff105ce722f22aa844391 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sblondon <stephane.blondon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 11:24:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 07/11] Remove or update bitbucket links (GH-101963)

Since Mercurial removal from bitbucket.org, some links are broken.
They are replaced by github.com or webarchive.org links if available. Otherwise, they are removed.

Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 Doc/distributing/index.rst | 3 +--
 Doc/installing/index.rst   | 3 +--
 Doc/library/venv.rst       | 2 +-
 Lib/test/test_pathlib.py   | 2 +-
 PC/launcher.c              | 3 +--
 PC/launcher2.c             | 3 +--
 6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/distributing/index.rst b/Doc/distributing/index.rst
index 2ae2726d4e4b92..21389adedf9c15 100644
--- a/Doc/distributing/index.rst
+++ b/Doc/distributing/index.rst
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ Key terms
   developers and documentation authors responsible for the maintenance and
   evolution of the standard packaging tools and the associated metadata and
   file format standards. They maintain a variety of tools, documentation
-  and issue trackers on both `GitHub <https://github.com/pypa>`__ and
-  `Bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/>`__.
+  and issue trackers on `GitHub <https://github.com/pypa>`__.
 * ``distutils`` is the original build and distribution system first added
   to the Python standard library in 1998. While direct use of ``distutils``
   is being phased out, it still laid the foundation for the current packaging
diff --git a/Doc/installing/index.rst b/Doc/installing/index.rst
index e158bf1c4c0c7f..5aec5178d48f3d 100644
--- a/Doc/installing/index.rst
+++ b/Doc/installing/index.rst
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ Key terms
   developers and documentation authors responsible for the maintenance and
   evolution of the standard packaging tools and the associated metadata and
   file format standards. They maintain a variety of tools, documentation,
-  and issue trackers on both `GitHub <https://github.com/pypa>`__ and
-  `Bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/>`__.
+  and issue trackers on `GitHub <https://github.com/pypa>`__.
 * ``distutils`` is the original build and distribution system first added to
   the Python standard library in 1998. While direct use of ``distutils`` is
   being phased out, it still laid the foundation for the current packaging
diff --git a/Doc/library/venv.rst b/Doc/library/venv.rst
index 2a41096de006b8..8eb0b35eaa12df 100644
--- a/Doc/library/venv.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/venv.rst
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ subclass which installs setuptools and pip into a created virtual environment::
             :param context: The information for the virtual environment
                             creation request being processed.
             """
-            url = 'https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads/ez_setup.py'
+            url = "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py"
             self.install_script(context, 'setuptools', url)
             # clear up the setuptools archive which gets downloaded
             pred = lambda o: o.startswith('setuptools-') and o.endswith('.tar.gz')
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index df9c1f6ba65deb..f8e2f44d27fc1e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@ def test_resolve_common(self):
 
     @os_helper.skip_unless_symlink
     def test_resolve_dot(self):
-        # See https://bitbucket.org/pitrou/pathlib/issue/9/pathresolve-fails-on-complex-symlinks
+        # See http://web.archive.org/web/20200623062557/https://bitbucket.org/pitrou/pathlib/issues/9/
         p = self.cls(BASE)
         self.dirlink('.', join('0'))
         self.dirlink(os.path.join('0', '0'), join('1'))
diff --git a/PC/launcher.c b/PC/launcher.c
index da566a180168c5..0776e57249c427 100644
--- a/PC/launcher.c
+++ b/PC/launcher.c
@@ -770,8 +770,7 @@ run_child(wchar_t * cmdline)
     window, or fetching a message).  As this launcher doesn't do this
     directly, that cursor remains even after the child process does these
     things.  We avoid that by doing a simple post+get message.
-    See http://bugs.python.org/issue17290 and
-    https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/pylauncher/issue/20/busy-cursor-for-a-long-time-when-running
+    See http://bugs.python.org/issue17290
     */
     MSG msg;
 
diff --git a/PC/launcher2.c b/PC/launcher2.c
index beeb2ae46b83f0..932665387f1966 100644
--- a/PC/launcher2.c
+++ b/PC/launcher2.c
@@ -2473,8 +2473,7 @@ launchEnvironment(const SearchInfo *search, const EnvironmentInfo *launch, wchar
     window, or fetching a message).  As this launcher doesn't do this
     directly, that cursor remains even after the child process does these
     things.  We avoid that by doing a simple post+get message.
-    See http://bugs.python.org/issue17290 and
-    https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/pylauncher/issue/20/busy-cursor-for-a-long-time-when-running
+    See http://bugs.python.org/issue17290
     */
     MSG msg;
 

From 401d7a7f009ca2e282b1a0d1b880dc602afd39dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 11:45:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 08/11] gh-102515: Remove unused imports in the `Lib/`
 directory (#102516)

---
 Lib/_pylong.py                               | 1 -
 Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py            | 2 ++
 Lib/dataclasses.py                           | 1 -
 Lib/importlib/_abc.py                        | 1 -
 Lib/sysconfig.py                             | 2 +-
 Lib/test/_test_venv_multiprocessing.py       | 1 -
 Lib/test/fork_wait.py                        | 2 +-
 Lib/test/test__xxinterpchannels.py           | 1 -
 Lib/test/test__xxsubinterpreters.py          | 2 --
 Lib/test/test_asyncgen.py                    | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_ssl.py            | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py     | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_callbacks.py       | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_dataclasses.py                 | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_enum.py                        | 2 --
 Lib/test/test_grammar.py                     | 2 --
 Lib/test/test_hashlib.py                     | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_httplib.py                     | 2 --
 Lib/test/test_imaplib.py                     | 2 --
 Lib/test/test_isinstance.py                  | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_minidom.py                     | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_peg_generator/test_c_parser.py | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_shlex.py                       | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_sys_setprofile.py              | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_sys_settrace.py                | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py        | 3 +--
 Lib/test/test_tools/test_sundry.py           | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_traceback.py                   | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py            | 4 +---
 Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py                 | 3 +--
 Lib/test/test_unittest/test_loader.py        | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_wmi.py                         | 1 -
 Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py                   | 2 +-
 33 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/_pylong.py b/Lib/_pylong.py
index d14c1d93836327..936346e187ff69 100644
--- a/Lib/_pylong.py
+++ b/Lib/_pylong.py
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 tricky or non-obvious code is not worth it.  For people looking for
 maximum performance, they should use something like gmpy2."""
 
-import sys
 import re
 import decimal
 
diff --git a/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py b/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py
index bee162430a6f8e..3a8637b6fa1b47 100644
--- a/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py
+++ b/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
 from concurrent.futures import _base
 import queue
 import multiprocessing as mp
+# This import is required to load the multiprocessing.connection submodule
+# so that it can be accessed later as `mp.connection`
 import multiprocessing.connection
 from multiprocessing.queues import Queue
 import threading
diff --git a/Lib/dataclasses.py b/Lib/dataclasses.py
index 5c0257eba186d1..8bc8594d674bc0 100644
--- a/Lib/dataclasses.py
+++ b/Lib/dataclasses.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 import types
 import inspect
 import keyword
-import builtins
 import functools
 import itertools
 import abc
diff --git a/Lib/importlib/_abc.py b/Lib/importlib/_abc.py
index 08320563896521..693b466112638f 100644
--- a/Lib/importlib/_abc.py
+++ b/Lib/importlib/_abc.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 """Subset of importlib.abc used to reduce importlib.util imports."""
 from . import _bootstrap
 import abc
-import warnings
 
 
 class Loader(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
diff --git a/Lib/sysconfig.py b/Lib/sysconfig.py
index c61100a6da8503..122d441bd19f5e 100644
--- a/Lib/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/sysconfig.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import threading
-from os.path import pardir, realpath
+from os.path import realpath
 
 __all__ = [
     'get_config_h_filename',
diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_venv_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_venv_multiprocessing.py
index 044a0c6cd3f5ca..ad985dd8d56bb4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/_test_venv_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_venv_multiprocessing.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import multiprocessing
 import random
 import sys
-import time
 
 def fill_queue(queue, code):
     queue.put(code)
diff --git a/Lib/test/fork_wait.py b/Lib/test/fork_wait.py
index c26c7aaaeb4306..8c32895f5e09e5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/fork_wait.py
+++ b/Lib/test/fork_wait.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 active threads survive in the child after a fork(); this is an error.
 """
 
-import os, sys, time, unittest
+import os, time, unittest
 import threading
 from test import support
 from test.support import threading_helper
diff --git a/Lib/test/test__xxinterpchannels.py b/Lib/test/test__xxinterpchannels.py
index 03bb5c80b8dac9..69bda89a1688f5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test__xxinterpchannels.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test__xxinterpchannels.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 from collections import namedtuple
 import contextlib
-import os
 import sys
 from textwrap import dedent
 import threading
diff --git a/Lib/test/test__xxsubinterpreters.py b/Lib/test/test__xxsubinterpreters.py
index 687fcf3b770522..965967e3f2734b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test__xxsubinterpreters.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test__xxsubinterpreters.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from collections import namedtuple
 import contextlib
 import itertools
 import os
@@ -6,7 +5,6 @@
 import sys
 from textwrap import dedent
 import threading
-import time
 import unittest
 
 import _testcapi
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncgen.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncgen.py
index 0421efdbf9dac9..09e4010b0e53d6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asyncgen.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asyncgen.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import types
 import unittest
 import contextlib
-import warnings
 
 from test.support.import_helper import import_module
 from test.support import gc_collect, requires_working_socket
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_ssl.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_ssl.py
index aaf3c37101f52a..e9cc735613fb8e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_ssl.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import asyncio
-import asyncio.sslproto
 import contextlib
 import gc
 import logging
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py
index f1ad10a9903fe8..eba6e2d1f28f3e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import os
-import shutil
 import signal
 import sys
 import unittest
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_callbacks.py b/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_callbacks.py
index e8fa3e6f7aca51..b185e388ab1527 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_callbacks.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ctypes/test_callbacks.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import sys
 import functools
 import unittest
 from test import support
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_dataclasses.py b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses.py
index 81a36aa241acf7..589f229f462359 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_dataclasses.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses.py
@@ -2261,7 +2261,6 @@ def test_base_has_init(self):
         class B:
             def __init__(self):
                 self.z = 100
-                pass
 
         # Make sure that declaring this class doesn't raise an error.
         #  The issue is that we can't override __init__ in our class,
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_enum.py b/Lib/test/test_enum.py
index 0a2e0c14d268af..2b14590b2c21af 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_enum.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_enum.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 from test import support
 from test.support import ALWAYS_EQ
 from test.support import threading_helper
-from textwrap import dedent
 from datetime import timedelta
 
 python_version = sys.version_info[:2]
@@ -1187,7 +1186,6 @@ class MyEnum(HexInt, enum.Enum):
         #
         class SillyInt(HexInt):
             __qualname__ = 'SillyInt'
-            pass
         class MyOtherEnum(SillyInt, enum.Enum):
             __qualname__ = 'MyOtherEnum'
             D = 4
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_grammar.py b/Lib/test/test_grammar.py
index 5b946020994e31..ced9000f75f2e5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_grammar.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_grammar.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 from test.support import check_syntax_error
 from test.support import import_helper
-from test.support.warnings_helper import check_syntax_warning
 import inspect
 import unittest
 import sys
@@ -15,7 +14,6 @@
 # with import machinery
 import test.ann_module as ann_module
 import typing
-from collections import ChainMap
 from test import ann_module2
 import test
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_hashlib.py b/Lib/test/test_hashlib.py
index 5ead8857943592..08cb5eb0c2bbab 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_hashlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_hashlib.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 from test.support import os_helper
 from test.support import requires_resource
 from test.support import threading_helper
-from test.support import warnings_helper
 from http.client import HTTPException
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index 620a5b19109a8c..9ff6afcbadec54 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import re
 import socket
 import threading
-import warnings
 
 import unittest
 from unittest import mock
@@ -17,7 +16,6 @@
 from test import support
 from test.support import os_helper
 from test.support import socket_helper
-from test.support import warnings_helper
 
 support.requires_working_socket(module=True)
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_imaplib.py b/Lib/test/test_imaplib.py
index 7626d9572e1e96..60f5b671b1da48 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_imaplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_imaplib.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 from test.support import verbose, run_with_tz, run_with_locale, cpython_only
 from test.support import hashlib_helper
 from test.support import threading_helper
-from test.support import warnings_helper
 import unittest
 from unittest import mock
 from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
@@ -751,7 +750,6 @@ class NonUTF8Server(SimpleIMAPHandler):
                 typ, data = client.login('user', 'pass')
                 self.assertEqual(typ, 'OK')
                 client.enable('UTF8=ACCEPT')
-                pass
 
     @threading_helper.reap_threads
     def test_enable_UTF8_True_append(self):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_isinstance.py b/Lib/test/test_isinstance.py
index 2fcf6ebbee7e34..bf9332e40aeaf2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_isinstance.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_isinstance.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # testing of error conditions uncovered when using extension types.
 
 import unittest
-import sys
 import typing
 from test import support
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
index 2ca3908bd1caac..699265ccadc7f9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 from test import support
 import unittest
 
-import pyexpat
 import xml.dom.minidom
 
 from xml.dom.minidom import parse, Attr, Node, Document, parseString
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_peg_generator/test_c_parser.py b/Lib/test/test_peg_generator/test_c_parser.py
index 1b3fcbb92f8292..d34ffef0dbc5ec 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_peg_generator/test_c_parser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_peg_generator/test_c_parser.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
         generate_parser_c_extension,
         generate_c_parser_source,
     )
-    from pegen.ast_dump import ast_dump
 
 
 TEST_TEMPLATE = """
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_shlex.py b/Lib/test/test_shlex.py
index 92598dbbd5f293..797c91ee7effdf 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_shlex.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_shlex.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import shlex
 import string
 import unittest
-from unittest import mock
 
 
 # The original test data set was from shellwords, by Hartmut Goebel.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys_setprofile.py b/Lib/test/test_sys_setprofile.py
index acae433cd0a549..49e076c77d167a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys_setprofile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys_setprofile.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import pprint
 import sys
 import unittest
-from test import support
 
 
 class TestGetProfile(unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys_settrace.py b/Lib/test/test_sys_settrace.py
index a251b2272e95eb..4907c930e143d5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys_settrace.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys_settrace.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 from test import support
 import unittest
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 import sys
 import difflib
 import gc
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py b/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py
index 6fde93cbecc73f..64c9472706549b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tkinter/test_widgets.py
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
                                   AbstractDefaultRootTest)
 from test.test_tkinter.widget_tests import (
     add_standard_options,
-    AbstractWidgetTest, StandardOptionsTests, IntegerSizeTests, PixelSizeTests,
-    setUpModule)
+    AbstractWidgetTest, StandardOptionsTests, IntegerSizeTests, PixelSizeTests)
 
 requires('gui')
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tools/test_sundry.py b/Lib/test/test_tools/test_sundry.py
index 81f06763980a32..6a3dc12781b2b6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tools/test_sundry.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tools/test_sundry.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 """
 
 import os
-import sys
 import unittest
 from test.support import import_helper
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
index 95b1bae4f60850..92c5a000585855 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import sys
 import types
 import inspect
-import importlib
 import builtins
 import unittest
 import re
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py b/Lib/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py
index 6f47ccb8e8b3de..79d65b496abdc6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ttk/test_widgets.py
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 from test.test_tkinter.support import (AbstractTkTest, tcl_version, get_tk_patchlevel,
                                   simulate_mouse_click, AbstractDefaultRootTest)
 from test.test_tkinter.widget_tests import (add_standard_options,
-    AbstractWidgetTest, StandardOptionsTests, IntegerSizeTests, PixelSizeTests,
-    setUpModule)
+    AbstractWidgetTest, StandardOptionsTests, IntegerSizeTests, PixelSizeTests)
 
 requires('gui')
 
@@ -50,7 +49,6 @@ def test_configure_style(self):
         widget2 = self.create(class_='Foo')
         self.assertEqual(widget2['class'], 'Foo')
         # XXX
-        pass
 
 
 class WidgetTest(AbstractTkTest, unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py b/Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py
index 74503c89e559a0..3dc0790ca15b41 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
 import unicodedata
 import unittest
 from test.support import (open_urlresource, requires_resource, script_helper,
-                          cpython_only, check_disallow_instantiation,
-                          ResourceDenied)
+                          cpython_only, check_disallow_instantiation)
 
 
 class UnicodeMethodsTest(unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unittest/test_loader.py b/Lib/test/test_unittest/test_loader.py
index bbdfb247ebaada..a203145a791b1a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unittest/test_loader.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unittest/test_loader.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import functools
 import sys
 import types
-import warnings
 
 import unittest
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_wmi.py b/Lib/test/test_wmi.py
index 3f579595290524..3445702846d8a0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_wmi.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_wmi.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Test the internal _wmi module on Windows
 # This is used by the platform module, and potentially others
 
-import sys
 import unittest
 from test.support import import_helper, requires_resource
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py b/Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py
index be654a8478b04b..2e1affe0252858 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
         'test requires loads of disk-space bytes and a long time to run'
     )
 
-import zipfile, os, unittest
+import zipfile, unittest
 import time
 import sys
 

From b097925858c6975c73e989226cf278cc382c0416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JosephSBoyle <48555120+JosephSBoyle@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 13:58:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 09/11] gh-102507 Remove invisible pagebreak characters
 (#102531)

Co-authored-by: AlexWaygood <alex.waygood@gmail.com>
---
 Lib/email/__init__.py          |  1 -
 Lib/email/base64mime.py        |  4 ----
 Lib/email/charset.py           |  5 -----
 Lib/email/encoders.py          |  4 ----
 Lib/email/feedparser.py        |  2 --
 Lib/email/generator.py         |  5 +----
 Lib/email/header.py            |  5 -----
 Lib/email/iterators.py         |  3 ---
 Lib/email/mime/base.py         |  1 -
 Lib/email/mime/message.py      |  1 -
 Lib/email/mime/multipart.py    |  1 -
 Lib/email/mime/nonmultipart.py |  1 -
 Lib/email/mime/text.py         |  1 -
 Lib/email/parser.py            |  3 +--
 Modules/_io/bufferedio.c       |  3 ---
 Tools/i18n/pygettext.py        | 11 ++++-------
 16 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/email/__init__.py b/Lib/email/__init__.py
index fae872439edc66..9fa47783004185 100644
--- a/Lib/email/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/email/__init__.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
     ]
 
 
-
 # Some convenience routines.  Don't import Parser and Message as side-effects
 # of importing email since those cascadingly import most of the rest of the
 # email package.
diff --git a/Lib/email/base64mime.py b/Lib/email/base64mime.py
index a7cc37365c6f9a..4cdf22666e3016 100644
--- a/Lib/email/base64mime.py
+++ b/Lib/email/base64mime.py
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
 MISC_LEN = 7
 
 
-
 # Helpers
 def header_length(bytearray):
     """Return the length of s when it is encoded with base64."""
@@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ def header_length(bytearray):
     return n
 
 
-
 def header_encode(header_bytes, charset='iso-8859-1'):
     """Encode a single header line with Base64 encoding in a given charset.
 
@@ -72,7 +70,6 @@ def header_encode(header_bytes, charset='iso-8859-1'):
     return '=?%s?b?%s?=' % (charset, encoded)
 
 
-
 def body_encode(s, maxlinelen=76, eol=NL):
     r"""Encode a string with base64.
 
@@ -98,7 +95,6 @@ def body_encode(s, maxlinelen=76, eol=NL):
     return EMPTYSTRING.join(encvec)
 
 
-
 def decode(string):
     """Decode a raw base64 string, returning a bytes object.
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/charset.py b/Lib/email/charset.py
index 791b6584b24757..9af269442fb8af 100644
--- a/Lib/email/charset.py
+++ b/Lib/email/charset.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 from email.encoders import encode_7or8bit
 
 
-
 # Flags for types of header encodings
 QP          = 1 # Quoted-Printable
 BASE64      = 2 # Base64
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@
 EMPTYSTRING = ''
 
 
-
 # Defaults
 CHARSETS = {
     # input        header enc  body enc output conv
@@ -104,7 +102,6 @@
     }
 
 
-
 # Convenience functions for extending the above mappings
 def add_charset(charset, header_enc=None, body_enc=None, output_charset=None):
     """Add character set properties to the global registry.
@@ -153,7 +150,6 @@ def add_codec(charset, codecname):
     CODEC_MAP[charset] = codecname
 
 
-
 # Convenience function for encoding strings, taking into account
 # that they might be unknown-8bit (ie: have surrogate-escaped bytes)
 def _encode(string, codec):
@@ -163,7 +159,6 @@ def _encode(string, codec):
         return string.encode(codec)
 
 
-
 class Charset:
     """Map character sets to their email properties.
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/encoders.py b/Lib/email/encoders.py
index 0a66acb6240bd7..17bd1ab7b19f32 100644
--- a/Lib/email/encoders.py
+++ b/Lib/email/encoders.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 from quopri import encodestring as _encodestring
 
 
-
 def _qencode(s):
     enc = _encodestring(s, quotetabs=True)
     # Must encode spaces, which quopri.encodestring() doesn't do
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ def encode_base64(msg):
     msg['Content-Transfer-Encoding'] = 'base64'
 
 
-
 def encode_quopri(msg):
     """Encode the message's payload in quoted-printable.
 
@@ -46,7 +44,6 @@ def encode_quopri(msg):
     msg['Content-Transfer-Encoding'] = 'quoted-printable'
 
 
-
 def encode_7or8bit(msg):
     """Set the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to 7bit or 8bit."""
     orig = msg.get_payload(decode=True)
@@ -64,6 +61,5 @@ def encode_7or8bit(msg):
         msg['Content-Transfer-Encoding'] = '7bit'
 
 
-
 def encode_noop(msg):
     """Do nothing."""
diff --git a/Lib/email/feedparser.py b/Lib/email/feedparser.py
index 97d3f5144d606f..6bc4e0c4e59895 100644
--- a/Lib/email/feedparser.py
+++ b/Lib/email/feedparser.py
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 NeedMoreData = object()
 
 
-
 class BufferedSubFile(object):
     """A file-ish object that can have new data loaded into it.
 
@@ -132,7 +131,6 @@ def __next__(self):
         return line
 
 
-
 class FeedParser:
     """A feed-style parser of email."""
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/generator.py b/Lib/email/generator.py
index 885e6ba98540a7..7ccbe10eb76856 100644
--- a/Lib/email/generator.py
+++ b/Lib/email/generator.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 fcre = re.compile(r'^From ', re.MULTILINE)
 
 
-
 class Generator:
     """Generates output from a Message object tree.
 
@@ -392,7 +391,7 @@ def _make_boundary(cls, text=None):
     def _compile_re(cls, s, flags):
         return re.compile(s, flags)
 
-
+
 class BytesGenerator(Generator):
     """Generates a bytes version of a Message object tree.
 
@@ -443,7 +442,6 @@ def _compile_re(cls, s, flags):
         return re.compile(s.encode('ascii'), flags)
 
 
-
 _FMT = '[Non-text (%(type)s) part of message omitted, filename %(filename)s]'
 
 class DecodedGenerator(Generator):
@@ -503,7 +501,6 @@ def _dispatch(self, msg):
                     }, file=self)
 
 
-
 # Helper used by Generator._make_boundary
 _width = len(repr(sys.maxsize-1))
 _fmt = '%%0%dd' % _width
diff --git a/Lib/email/header.py b/Lib/email/header.py
index 4ab0032bc66123..984851a7d9a679 100644
--- a/Lib/email/header.py
+++ b/Lib/email/header.py
@@ -52,12 +52,10 @@
 _embedded_header = re.compile(r'\n[^ \t]+:')
 
 
-
 # Helpers
 _max_append = email.quoprimime._max_append
 
 
-
 def decode_header(header):
     """Decode a message header value without converting charset.
 
@@ -152,7 +150,6 @@ def decode_header(header):
     return collapsed
 
 
-
 def make_header(decoded_seq, maxlinelen=None, header_name=None,
                 continuation_ws=' '):
     """Create a Header from a sequence of pairs as returned by decode_header()
@@ -175,7 +172,6 @@ def make_header(decoded_seq, maxlinelen=None, header_name=None,
     return h
 
 
-
 class Header:
     def __init__(self, s=None, charset=None,
                  maxlinelen=None, header_name=None,
@@ -409,7 +405,6 @@ def _normalize(self):
         self._chunks = chunks
 
 
-
 class _ValueFormatter:
     def __init__(self, headerlen, maxlen, continuation_ws, splitchars):
         self._maxlen = maxlen
diff --git a/Lib/email/iterators.py b/Lib/email/iterators.py
index b5502ee975266b..3410935e38f476 100644
--- a/Lib/email/iterators.py
+++ b/Lib/email/iterators.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 from io import StringIO
 
 
-
 # This function will become a method of the Message class
 def walk(self):
     """Walk over the message tree, yielding each subpart.
@@ -29,7 +28,6 @@ def walk(self):
             yield from subpart.walk()
 
 
-
 # These two functions are imported into the Iterators.py interface module.
 def body_line_iterator(msg, decode=False):
     """Iterate over the parts, returning string payloads line-by-line.
@@ -55,7 +53,6 @@ def typed_subpart_iterator(msg, maintype='text', subtype=None):
                 yield subpart
 
 
-
 def _structure(msg, fp=None, level=0, include_default=False):
     """A handy debugging aid"""
     if fp is None:
diff --git a/Lib/email/mime/base.py b/Lib/email/mime/base.py
index 1a3f9b51f6c045..f601f621cec393 100644
--- a/Lib/email/mime/base.py
+++ b/Lib/email/mime/base.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 from email import message
 
 
-
 class MIMEBase(message.Message):
     """Base class for MIME specializations."""
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/mime/message.py b/Lib/email/mime/message.py
index 07e4f2d1196151..61836b5a7861fc 100644
--- a/Lib/email/mime/message.py
+++ b/Lib/email/mime/message.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 from email.mime.nonmultipart import MIMENonMultipart
 
 
-
 class MIMEMessage(MIMENonMultipart):
     """Class representing message/* MIME documents."""
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/mime/multipart.py b/Lib/email/mime/multipart.py
index 2d3f288810dd91..94d81c771a474e 100644
--- a/Lib/email/mime/multipart.py
+++ b/Lib/email/mime/multipart.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
 
 
-
 class MIMEMultipart(MIMEBase):
     """Base class for MIME multipart/* type messages."""
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/mime/nonmultipart.py b/Lib/email/mime/nonmultipart.py
index e1f51968b59eb1..a41386eb148c0c 100644
--- a/Lib/email/mime/nonmultipart.py
+++ b/Lib/email/mime/nonmultipart.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
 
 
-
 class MIMENonMultipart(MIMEBase):
     """Base class for MIME non-multipart type messages."""
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/mime/text.py b/Lib/email/mime/text.py
index 35b442383002b2..dfe53c426b2ac4 100644
--- a/Lib/email/mime/text.py
+++ b/Lib/email/mime/text.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 from email.mime.nonmultipart import MIMENonMultipart
 
 
-
 class MIMEText(MIMENonMultipart):
     """Class for generating text/* type MIME documents."""
 
diff --git a/Lib/email/parser.py b/Lib/email/parser.py
index e94d455baa5262..06d99b17f2f9c4 100644
--- a/Lib/email/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/email/parser.py
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ def parsestr(self, text, headersonly=False):
         return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly)
 
 
-
 class HeaderParser(Parser):
     def parse(self, fp, headersonly=True):
         return Parser.parse(self, fp, True)
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ def parse(self, fp, headersonly=True):
     def parsestr(self, text, headersonly=True):
         return Parser.parsestr(self, text, True)
 
-
+
 class BytesParser:
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
diff --git a/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c b/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
index 960026707fc5ed..2c71768be97870 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/bufferedio.c
@@ -1742,7 +1742,6 @@ _bufferedreader_peek_unlocked(buffered *self)
     self->pos = 0;
     return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(self->buffer, r);
 }
-
 
 
 /*
@@ -2052,7 +2051,6 @@ _io_BufferedWriter_write_impl(buffered *self, Py_buffer *buffer)
     LEAVE_BUFFERED(self)
     return res;
 }
-
 
 
 /*
@@ -2266,7 +2264,6 @@ bufferedrwpair_closed_get(rwpair *self, void *context)
     }
     return PyObject_GetAttr((PyObject *) self->writer, &_Py_ID(closed));
 }
-
 
 
 /*
diff --git a/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py b/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
index 7ada79105db1ca..3a0b27ba420e7a 100755
--- a/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
+++ b/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@
 EMPTYSTRING = ''
 
 
-
 # The normal pot-file header. msgmerge and Emacs's po-mode work better if it's
 # there.
 pot_header = _('''\
@@ -196,7 +195,7 @@
 
 ''')
 
-
+
 def usage(code, msg=''):
     print(__doc__ % globals(), file=sys.stderr)
     if msg:
@@ -204,7 +203,6 @@ def usage(code, msg=''):
     sys.exit(code)
 
 
-
 def make_escapes(pass_nonascii):
     global escapes, escape
     if pass_nonascii:
@@ -258,7 +256,7 @@ def normalize(s, encoding):
         s = '""\n"' + lineterm.join(lines) + '"'
     return s
 
-
+
 def containsAny(str, set):
     """Check whether 'str' contains ANY of the chars in 'set'"""
     return 1 in [c in str for c in set]
@@ -307,7 +305,7 @@ def getFilesForName(name):
 
     return []
 
-
+
 class TokenEater:
     def __init__(self, options):
         self.__options = options
@@ -515,7 +513,6 @@ def write(self, fp):
                 print('msgstr ""\n', file=fp)
 
 
-
 def main():
     global default_keywords
     try:
@@ -675,7 +672,7 @@ class Options:
         if closep:
             fp.close()
 
-
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()
     # some more test strings

From 11a2c6ce516b24b2435cb627742a6c4df92d411c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 17:03:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 10/11] gh-102192: Replace PyErr_Fetch/Restore etc by more
 efficient alternatives (in Objects/) (#102218)

---
 Objects/dictobject.c    |  2 +-
 Objects/exceptions.c    | 39 +++++++++----------------
 Objects/frameobject.c   |  5 ++--
 Objects/genobject.c     | 64 +++++++++++------------------------------
 Objects/object.c        | 25 +++++++---------
 Objects/odictobject.c   |  5 ++--
 Objects/typeobject.c    | 10 +++----
 Objects/weakrefobject.c |  7 ++---
 8 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c
index e3795e75e3da5e..75c92172a91778 100644
--- a/Objects/dictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ As a consequence of this, split keys have a maximum size of 16.
 #include "pycore_dict.h"          // PyDictKeysObject
 #include "pycore_gc.h"            // _PyObject_GC_IS_TRACKED()
 #include "pycore_object.h"        // _PyObject_GC_TRACK()
-#include "pycore_pyerrors.h"      // _PyErr_Fetch()
+#include "pycore_pyerrors.h"      // _PyErr_GetRaisedException()
 #include "pycore_pystate.h"       // _PyThreadState_GET()
 #include "stringlib/eq.h"         // unicode_eq()
 
diff --git a/Objects/exceptions.c b/Objects/exceptions.c
index a473cbdfeda7fc..c6fb6a3f19b2d0 100644
--- a/Objects/exceptions.c
+++ b/Objects/exceptions.c
@@ -3781,16 +3781,13 @@ PyObject *
 _PyErr_TrySetFromCause(const char *format, ...)
 {
     PyObject* msg_prefix;
-    PyObject *exc, *val, *tb;
-    PyTypeObject *caught_type;
     PyObject *instance_args;
     Py_ssize_t num_args, caught_type_size, base_exc_size;
-    PyObject *new_exc, *new_val, *new_tb;
     va_list vargs;
     int same_basic_size;
 
-    PyErr_Fetch(&exc, &val, &tb);
-    caught_type = (PyTypeObject *)exc;
+    PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
+    PyTypeObject *caught_type = Py_TYPE(exc);
     /* Ensure type info indicates no extra state is stored at the C level
      * and that the type can be reinstantiated using PyErr_Format
      */
@@ -3810,31 +3807,30 @@ _PyErr_TrySetFromCause(const char *format, ...)
          * more state than just the exception type. Accordingly, we just
          * leave it alone.
          */
-        PyErr_Restore(exc, val, tb);
+        PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
         return NULL;
     }
 
     /* Check the args are empty or contain a single string */
-    PyErr_NormalizeException(&exc, &val, &tb);
-    instance_args = ((PyBaseExceptionObject *)val)->args;
+    instance_args = ((PyBaseExceptionObject *)exc)->args;
     num_args = PyTuple_GET_SIZE(instance_args);
     if (num_args > 1 ||
         (num_args == 1 &&
          !PyUnicode_CheckExact(PyTuple_GET_ITEM(instance_args, 0)))) {
         /* More than 1 arg, or the one arg we do have isn't a string
          */
-        PyErr_Restore(exc, val, tb);
+        PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
         return NULL;
     }
 
     /* Ensure the instance dict is also empty */
-    if (!_PyObject_IsInstanceDictEmpty(val)) {
+    if (!_PyObject_IsInstanceDictEmpty(exc)) {
         /* While we could potentially copy a non-empty instance dictionary
          * to the replacement exception, for now we take the more
          * conservative path of leaving exceptions with attributes set
          * alone.
          */
-        PyErr_Restore(exc, val, tb);
+        PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
         return NULL;
     }
 
@@ -3847,28 +3843,19 @@ _PyErr_TrySetFromCause(const char *format, ...)
      * types as well, but that's quite a bit trickier due to the extra
      * state potentially stored on OSError instances.
      */
-    /* Ensure the traceback is set correctly on the existing exception */
-    if (tb != NULL) {
-        PyException_SetTraceback(val, tb);
-        Py_DECREF(tb);
-    }
-
     va_start(vargs, format);
     msg_prefix = PyUnicode_FromFormatV(format, vargs);
     va_end(vargs);
     if (msg_prefix == NULL) {
         Py_DECREF(exc);
-        Py_DECREF(val);
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    PyErr_Format(exc, "%U (%s: %S)",
-                 msg_prefix, Py_TYPE(val)->tp_name, val);
-    Py_DECREF(exc);
+    PyErr_Format((PyObject*)Py_TYPE(exc), "%U (%s: %S)",
+                 msg_prefix, Py_TYPE(exc)->tp_name, exc);
     Py_DECREF(msg_prefix);
-    PyErr_Fetch(&new_exc, &new_val, &new_tb);
-    PyErr_NormalizeException(&new_exc, &new_val, &new_tb);
-    PyException_SetCause(new_val, val);
-    PyErr_Restore(new_exc, new_val, new_tb);
-    return new_val;
+    PyObject *new_exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
+    PyException_SetCause(new_exc, exc);
+    PyErr_SetRaisedException(new_exc);
+    return new_exc;
 }
diff --git a/Objects/frameobject.c b/Objects/frameobject.c
index 34143c9a40b293..133c991bf701c4 100644
--- a/Objects/frameobject.c
+++ b/Objects/frameobject.c
@@ -1308,7 +1308,6 @@ _PyFrame_LocalsToFast(_PyInterpreterFrame *frame, int clear)
     /* Merge locals into fast locals */
     PyObject *locals;
     PyObject **fast;
-    PyObject *error_type, *error_value, *error_traceback;
     PyCodeObject *co;
     locals = frame->f_locals;
     if (locals == NULL) {
@@ -1317,7 +1316,7 @@ _PyFrame_LocalsToFast(_PyInterpreterFrame *frame, int clear)
     fast = _PyFrame_GetLocalsArray(frame);
     co = frame->f_code;
 
-    PyErr_Fetch(&error_type, &error_value, &error_traceback);
+    PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
     for (int i = 0; i < co->co_nlocalsplus; i++) {
         _PyLocals_Kind kind = _PyLocals_GetKind(co->co_localspluskinds, i);
 
@@ -1374,7 +1373,7 @@ _PyFrame_LocalsToFast(_PyInterpreterFrame *frame, int clear)
         }
         Py_XDECREF(value);
     }
-    PyErr_Restore(error_type, error_value, error_traceback);
+    PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/Objects/genobject.c b/Objects/genobject.c
index be08a59ece6b7e..61463774310f88 100644
--- a/Objects/genobject.c
+++ b/Objects/genobject.c
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ void
 _PyGen_Finalize(PyObject *self)
 {
     PyGenObject *gen = (PyGenObject *)self;
-    PyObject *res = NULL;
-    PyObject *error_type, *error_value, *error_traceback;
 
     if (gen->gi_frame_state >= FRAME_COMPLETED) {
         /* Generator isn't paused, so no need to close */
@@ -82,23 +80,22 @@ _PyGen_Finalize(PyObject *self)
         PyObject *finalizer = agen->ag_origin_or_finalizer;
         if (finalizer && !agen->ag_closed) {
             /* Save the current exception, if any. */
-            PyErr_Fetch(&error_type, &error_value, &error_traceback);
-
-            res = PyObject_CallOneArg(finalizer, self);
+            PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
 
+            PyObject *res = PyObject_CallOneArg(finalizer, self);
             if (res == NULL) {
                 PyErr_WriteUnraisable(self);
             } else {
                 Py_DECREF(res);
             }
             /* Restore the saved exception. */
-            PyErr_Restore(error_type, error_value, error_traceback);
+            PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
             return;
         }
     }
 
     /* Save the current exception, if any. */
-    PyErr_Fetch(&error_type, &error_value, &error_traceback);
+    PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
 
     /* If `gen` is a coroutine, and if it was never awaited on,
        issue a RuntimeWarning. */
@@ -109,20 +106,19 @@ _PyGen_Finalize(PyObject *self)
         _PyErr_WarnUnawaitedCoroutine((PyObject *)gen);
     }
     else {
-        res = gen_close(gen, NULL);
-    }
-
-    if (res == NULL) {
-        if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
-            PyErr_WriteUnraisable(self);
+        PyObject *res = gen_close(gen, NULL);
+        if (res == NULL) {
+            if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
+                PyErr_WriteUnraisable(self);
+            }
+        }
+        else {
+            Py_DECREF(res);
         }
-    }
-    else {
-        Py_DECREF(res);
     }
 
     /* Restore the saved exception. */
-    PyErr_Restore(error_type, error_value, error_traceback);
+    PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
 }
 
 static void
@@ -648,39 +644,11 @@ _PyGen_SetStopIterationValue(PyObject *value)
 int
 _PyGen_FetchStopIterationValue(PyObject **pvalue)
 {
-    PyObject *et, *ev, *tb;
     PyObject *value = NULL;
-
     if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_StopIteration)) {
-        PyErr_Fetch(&et, &ev, &tb);
-        if (ev) {
-            /* exception will usually be normalised already */
-            if (PyObject_TypeCheck(ev, (PyTypeObject *) et)) {
-                value = Py_NewRef(((PyStopIterationObject *)ev)->value);
-                Py_DECREF(ev);
-            } else if (et == PyExc_StopIteration && !PyTuple_Check(ev)) {
-                /* Avoid normalisation and take ev as value.
-                 *
-                 * Normalization is required if the value is a tuple, in
-                 * that case the value of StopIteration would be set to
-                 * the first element of the tuple.
-                 *
-                 * (See _PyErr_CreateException code for details.)
-                 */
-                value = ev;
-            } else {
-                /* normalisation required */
-                PyErr_NormalizeException(&et, &ev, &tb);
-                if (!PyObject_TypeCheck(ev, (PyTypeObject *)PyExc_StopIteration)) {
-                    PyErr_Restore(et, ev, tb);
-                    return -1;
-                }
-                value = Py_NewRef(((PyStopIterationObject *)ev)->value);
-                Py_DECREF(ev);
-            }
-        }
-        Py_XDECREF(et);
-        Py_XDECREF(tb);
+        PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
+        value = Py_NewRef(((PyStopIterationObject *)exc)->value);
+        Py_DECREF(exc);
     } else if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
         return -1;
     }
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index 446c7b1f5f0302..5db2b6af21ef13 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -370,13 +370,12 @@ _PyObject_Dump(PyObject* op)
     fflush(stderr);
 
     PyGILState_STATE gil = PyGILState_Ensure();
-    PyObject *error_type, *error_value, *error_traceback;
-    PyErr_Fetch(&error_type, &error_value, &error_traceback);
+    PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
 
     (void)PyObject_Print(op, stderr, 0);
     fflush(stderr);
 
-    PyErr_Restore(error_type, error_value, error_traceback);
+    PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
     PyGILState_Release(gil);
 
     fprintf(stderr, "\n");
@@ -860,25 +859,22 @@ set_attribute_error_context(PyObject* v, PyObject* name)
         return 0;
     }
     // Intercept AttributeError exceptions and augment them to offer suggestions later.
-    PyObject *type, *value, *traceback;
-    PyErr_Fetch(&type, &value, &traceback);
-    PyErr_NormalizeException(&type, &value, &traceback);
-    // Check if the normalized exception is indeed an AttributeError
-    if (!PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(value, PyExc_AttributeError)) {
+    PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
+    if (!PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(exc, PyExc_AttributeError)) {
         goto restore;
     }
-    PyAttributeErrorObject* the_exc = (PyAttributeErrorObject*) value;
+    PyAttributeErrorObject* the_exc = (PyAttributeErrorObject*) exc;
     // Check if this exception was already augmented
     if (the_exc->name || the_exc->obj) {
         goto restore;
     }
     // Augment the exception with the name and object
-    if (PyObject_SetAttr(value, &_Py_ID(name), name) ||
-        PyObject_SetAttr(value, &_Py_ID(obj), v)) {
+    if (PyObject_SetAttr(exc, &_Py_ID(name), name) ||
+        PyObject_SetAttr(exc, &_Py_ID(obj), v)) {
         return 1;
     }
 restore:
-    PyErr_Restore(type, value, traceback);
+    PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -2190,9 +2186,8 @@ Py_ReprLeave(PyObject *obj)
     PyObject *dict;
     PyObject *list;
     Py_ssize_t i;
-    PyObject *error_type, *error_value, *error_traceback;
 
-    PyErr_Fetch(&error_type, &error_value, &error_traceback);
+    PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
 
     dict = PyThreadState_GetDict();
     if (dict == NULL)
@@ -2213,7 +2208,7 @@ Py_ReprLeave(PyObject *obj)
 
 finally:
     /* ignore exceptions because there is no way to report them. */
-    PyErr_Restore(error_type, error_value, error_traceback);
+    PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
 }
 
 /* Trashcan support. */
diff --git a/Objects/odictobject.c b/Objects/odictobject.c
index 215a8af54fb266..39b0f684510578 100644
--- a/Objects/odictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/odictobject.c
@@ -1556,10 +1556,9 @@ _PyODict_SetItem_KnownHash(PyObject *od, PyObject *key, PyObject *value,
         res = _odict_add_new_node((PyODictObject *)od, key, hash);
         if (res < 0) {
             /* Revert setting the value on the dict */
-            PyObject *exc, *val, *tb;
-            PyErr_Fetch(&exc, &val, &tb);
+            PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
             (void) _PyDict_DelItem_KnownHash(od, key, hash);
-            _PyErr_ChainExceptions(exc, val, tb);
+            _PyErr_ChainExceptions1(exc);
         }
     }
     return res;
diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index 981930f58417d8..f486b83fd69e64 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -4397,10 +4397,9 @@ static void
 type_dealloc_common(PyTypeObject *type)
 {
     if (type->tp_bases != NULL) {
-        PyObject *tp, *val, *tb;
-        PyErr_Fetch(&tp, &val, &tb);
+        PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
         remove_all_subclasses(type, type->tp_bases);
-        PyErr_Restore(tp, val, tb);
+        PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
     }
 }
 
@@ -8445,10 +8444,9 @@ slot_tp_finalize(PyObject *self)
 {
     int unbound;
     PyObject *del, *res;
-    PyObject *error_type, *error_value, *error_traceback;
 
     /* Save the current exception, if any. */
-    PyErr_Fetch(&error_type, &error_value, &error_traceback);
+    PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
 
     /* Execute __del__ method, if any. */
     del = lookup_maybe_method(self, &_Py_ID(__del__), &unbound);
@@ -8462,7 +8460,7 @@ slot_tp_finalize(PyObject *self)
     }
 
     /* Restore the saved exception. */
-    PyErr_Restore(error_type, error_value, error_traceback);
+    PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
 }
 
 static PyObject *
diff --git a/Objects/weakrefobject.c b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
index bd7720e2753307..5a3e49a6fe45e3 100644
--- a/Objects/weakrefobject.c
+++ b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
@@ -959,9 +959,8 @@ PyObject_ClearWeakRefs(PyObject *object)
     if (*list != NULL) {
         PyWeakReference *current = *list;
         Py_ssize_t count = _PyWeakref_GetWeakrefCount(current);
-        PyObject *err_type, *err_value, *err_tb;
+        PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();
 
-        PyErr_Fetch(&err_type, &err_value, &err_tb);
         if (count == 1) {
             PyObject *callback = current->wr_callback;
 
@@ -980,7 +979,7 @@ PyObject_ClearWeakRefs(PyObject *object)
 
             tuple = PyTuple_New(count * 2);
             if (tuple == NULL) {
-                _PyErr_ChainExceptions(err_type, err_value, err_tb);
+                _PyErr_ChainExceptions1(exc);
                 return;
             }
 
@@ -1010,7 +1009,7 @@ PyObject_ClearWeakRefs(PyObject *object)
             Py_DECREF(tuple);
         }
         assert(!PyErr_Occurred());
-        PyErr_Restore(err_type, err_value, err_tb);
+        PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
     }
 }
 

From cbb0aa71d040022db61390380b8aebc7c04f3275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 12:03:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] gh-102304: Consolidate Direct Usage of _Py_RefTotal
 (gh-102514)

This simplifies further changes to _Py_RefTotal (e.g. make it atomic or move it to PyInterpreterState).

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/102304
---
 Include/cpython/object.h         |  1 +
 Include/internal/pycore_object.h | 23 ++++++++--
 Include/object.h                 | 25 ++++++++--
 Modules/_testcapimodule.c        |  7 +--
 Objects/bytesobject.c            |  9 ++--
 Objects/dictobject.c             | 10 ++--
 Objects/object.c                 | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 Objects/structseq.c              |  2 +-
 Objects/tupleobject.c            |  9 ++--
 Objects/unicodeobject.c          |  7 +--
 10 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Include/cpython/object.h b/Include/cpython/object.h
index 3f26f2487d70cc..7b687d311359c3 100644
--- a/Include/cpython/object.h
+++ b/Include/cpython/object.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #endif
 
 PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_NewReference(PyObject *op);
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_NewReferenceNoTotal(PyObject *op);
 
 #ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
 /* Py_TRACE_REFS is such major surgery that we call external routines. */
diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_object.h b/Include/internal/pycore_object.h
index 8796dfe2f6b8cf..e15685f174ebcf 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_object.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_object.h
@@ -37,11 +37,23 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_NO_RETURN _Py_FatalRefcountErrorFunc(
 #define _Py_FatalRefcountError(message) \
     _Py_FatalRefcountErrorFunc(__func__, (message))
 
+
+#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
+/* The symbol is only exposed in the API for the sake of extensions
+   built against the pre-3.12 stable ABI. */
+PyAPI_DATA(Py_ssize_t) _Py_RefTotal;
+
+extern void _Py_AddRefTotal(Py_ssize_t);
+extern void _Py_IncRefTotal(void);
+extern void _Py_DecRefTotal(void);
+#  define _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL() _Py_RefTotal--
+#endif
+
 // Increment reference count by n
 static inline void _Py_RefcntAdd(PyObject* op, Py_ssize_t n)
 {
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal += n;
+    _Py_AddRefTotal(n);
 #endif
     op->ob_refcnt += n;
 }
@@ -52,7 +64,7 @@ _Py_DECREF_SPECIALIZED(PyObject *op, const destructor destruct)
 {
     _Py_DECREF_STAT_INC();
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
+    _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL();
 #endif
     if (--op->ob_refcnt != 0) {
         assert(op->ob_refcnt > 0);
@@ -70,7 +82,7 @@ _Py_DECREF_NO_DEALLOC(PyObject *op)
 {
     _Py_DECREF_STAT_INC();
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
+    _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL();
 #endif
     op->ob_refcnt--;
 #ifdef Py_DEBUG
@@ -80,6 +92,11 @@ _Py_DECREF_NO_DEALLOC(PyObject *op)
 #endif
 }
 
+#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
+#  undef _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL
+#endif
+
+
 PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyType_CheckConsistency(PyTypeObject *type);
 PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyDict_CheckConsistency(PyObject *mp, int check_content);
 
diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
index 3774f126730005..844b9c4a51c3e4 100644
--- a/Include/object.h
+++ b/Include/object.h
@@ -490,7 +490,21 @@ you can count such references to the type object.)
 */
 
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-PyAPI_DATA(Py_ssize_t) _Py_RefTotal;
+#  if defined(Py_LIMITED_API) && Py_LIMITED_API+0 < 0x030A0000
+extern Py_ssize_t _Py_RefTotal;
+#    define _Py_INC_REFTOTAL() _Py_RefTotal++
+#    define _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL() _Py_RefTotal--
+#  elif defined(Py_BUILD_CORE) && !defined(Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE)
+extern void _Py_IncRefTotal(void);
+extern void _Py_DecRefTotal(void);
+#    define _Py_INC_REFTOTAL() _Py_IncRefTotal()
+#    define _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL() _Py_DecRefTotal()
+#  elif !defined(Py_LIMITED_API) || Py_LIMITED_API+0 > 0x030C0000
+extern void _Py_IncRefTotal_DO_NOT_USE_THIS(void);
+extern void _Py_DecRefTotal_DO_NOT_USE_THIS(void);
+#    define _Py_INC_REFTOTAL() _Py_IncRefTotal_DO_NOT_USE_THIS()
+#    define _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL() _Py_DecRefTotal_DO_NOT_USE_THIS()
+#  endif
 PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_NegativeRefcount(const char *filename, int lineno,
                                       PyObject *op);
 #endif /* Py_REF_DEBUG */
@@ -519,8 +533,8 @@ static inline void Py_INCREF(PyObject *op)
     // Non-limited C API and limited C API for Python 3.9 and older access
     // directly PyObject.ob_refcnt.
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal++;
-#endif
+    _Py_INC_REFTOTAL();
+#endif  // Py_REF_DEBUG
     op->ob_refcnt++;
 #endif
 }
@@ -539,7 +553,7 @@ static inline void Py_DECREF(PyObject *op) {
 static inline void Py_DECREF(const char *filename, int lineno, PyObject *op)
 {
     _Py_DECREF_STAT_INC();
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
+    _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL();
     if (--op->ob_refcnt != 0) {
         if (op->ob_refcnt < 0) {
             _Py_NegativeRefcount(filename, lineno, op);
@@ -564,6 +578,9 @@ static inline void Py_DECREF(PyObject *op)
 #define Py_DECREF(op) Py_DECREF(_PyObject_CAST(op))
 #endif
 
+#undef _Py_INC_REFTOTAL
+#undef _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL
+
 
 /* Safely decref `op` and set `op` to NULL, especially useful in tp_clear
  * and tp_dealloc implementations.
diff --git a/Modules/_testcapimodule.c b/Modules/_testcapimodule.c
index 10e507d6b481de..ea67017a1ba3b1 100644
--- a/Modules/_testcapimodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_testcapimodule.c
@@ -1654,15 +1654,10 @@ slot_tp_del(PyObject *self)
      */
     {
         Py_ssize_t refcnt = Py_REFCNT(self);
-        _Py_NewReference(self);
+        _Py_NewReferenceNoTotal(self);
         Py_SET_REFCNT(self, refcnt);
     }
     assert(!PyType_IS_GC(Py_TYPE(self)) || PyObject_GC_IsTracked(self));
-    /* If Py_REF_DEBUG macro is defined, _Py_NewReference() increased
-       _Py_RefTotal, so we need to undo that. */
-#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
-#endif
 }
 
 static PyObject *
diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 657443f31fa709..687a654bdae137 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -3060,21 +3060,20 @@ _PyBytes_Resize(PyObject **pv, Py_ssize_t newsize)
         Py_DECREF(v);
         return 0;
     }
-    /* XXX UNREF/NEWREF interface should be more symmetrical */
-#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
-#endif
 #ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
     _Py_ForgetReference(v);
 #endif
     *pv = (PyObject *)
         PyObject_Realloc(v, PyBytesObject_SIZE + newsize);
     if (*pv == NULL) {
+#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
+        _Py_DecRefTotal();
+#endif
         PyObject_Free(v);
         PyErr_NoMemory();
         return -1;
     }
-    _Py_NewReference(*pv);
+    _Py_NewReferenceNoTotal(*pv);
     sv = (PyBytesObject *) *pv;
     Py_SET_SIZE(sv, newsize);
     sv->ob_sval[newsize] = '\0';
diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c
index 75c92172a91778..a60f275742a534 100644
--- a/Objects/dictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static inline void
 dictkeys_incref(PyDictKeysObject *dk)
 {
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal++;
+    _Py_IncRefTotal();
 #endif
     dk->dk_refcnt++;
 }
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ dictkeys_decref(PyDictKeysObject *dk)
 {
     assert(dk->dk_refcnt > 0);
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
+    _Py_DecRefTotal();
 #endif
     if (--dk->dk_refcnt == 0) {
         free_keys_object(dk);
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ new_keys_object(uint8_t log2_size, bool unicode)
         }
     }
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal++;
+    _Py_IncRefTotal();
 #endif
     dk->dk_refcnt = 1;
     dk->dk_log2_size = log2_size;
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ clone_combined_dict_keys(PyDictObject *orig)
        we have it now; calling dictkeys_incref would be an error as
        keys->dk_refcnt is already set to 1 (after memcpy). */
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal++;
+    _Py_IncRefTotal();
 #endif
     return keys;
 }
@@ -1520,7 +1520,7 @@ dictresize(PyDictObject *mp, uint8_t log2_newsize, int unicode)
         // We can not use free_keys_object here because key's reference
         // are moved already.
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-        _Py_RefTotal--;
+        _Py_DecRefTotal();
 #endif
         if (oldkeys == Py_EMPTY_KEYS) {
             oldkeys->dk_refcnt--;
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index 5db2b6af21ef13..38da4d497a96e7 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -56,6 +56,24 @@ _PyObject_CheckConsistency(PyObject *op, int check_content)
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
 Py_ssize_t _Py_RefTotal;
 
+static inline void
+reftotal_increment(void)
+{
+    _Py_RefTotal++;
+}
+
+static inline void
+reftotal_decrement(void)
+{
+    _Py_RefTotal--;
+}
+
+void
+_Py_AddRefTotal(Py_ssize_t n)
+{
+    _Py_RefTotal += n;
+}
+
 Py_ssize_t
 _Py_GetRefTotal(void)
 {
@@ -121,6 +139,32 @@ _Py_NegativeRefcount(const char *filename, int lineno, PyObject *op)
                            filename, lineno, __func__);
 }
 
+/* This is exposed strictly for use in Py_INCREF(). */
+PyAPI_FUNC(void)
+_Py_IncRefTotal_DO_NOT_USE_THIS(void)
+{
+    reftotal_increment();
+}
+
+/* This is exposed strictly for use in Py_DECREF(). */
+PyAPI_FUNC(void)
+_Py_DecRefTotal_DO_NOT_USE_THIS(void)
+{
+    reftotal_decrement();
+}
+
+void
+_Py_IncRefTotal(void)
+{
+    reftotal_increment();
+}
+
+void
+_Py_DecRefTotal(void)
+{
+    reftotal_decrement();
+}
+
 #endif /* Py_REF_DEBUG */
 
 void
@@ -138,12 +182,18 @@ Py_DecRef(PyObject *o)
 void
 _Py_IncRef(PyObject *o)
 {
+#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
+    reftotal_increment();
+#endif
     Py_INCREF(o);
 }
 
 void
 _Py_DecRef(PyObject *o)
 {
+#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
+    reftotal_decrement();
+#endif
     Py_DECREF(o);
 }
 
@@ -238,17 +288,12 @@ PyObject_CallFinalizerFromDealloc(PyObject *self)
     /* tp_finalize resurrected it!  Make it look like the original Py_DECREF
      * never happened. */
     Py_ssize_t refcnt = Py_REFCNT(self);
-    _Py_NewReference(self);
+    _Py_NewReferenceNoTotal(self);
     Py_SET_REFCNT(self, refcnt);
 
     _PyObject_ASSERT(self,
                      (!_PyType_IS_GC(Py_TYPE(self))
                       || _PyObject_GC_IS_TRACKED(self)));
-    /* If Py_REF_DEBUG macro is defined, _Py_NewReference() increased
-       _Py_RefTotal, so we need to undo that. */
-#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
-#endif
     return -1;
 }
 
@@ -2010,21 +2055,33 @@ _PyTypes_FiniTypes(PyInterpreterState *interp)
 }
 
 
-void
-_Py_NewReference(PyObject *op)
+static inline void
+new_reference(PyObject *op)
 {
     if (_PyRuntime.tracemalloc.config.tracing) {
         _PyTraceMalloc_NewReference(op);
     }
-#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal++;
-#endif
     Py_SET_REFCNT(op, 1);
 #ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
     _Py_AddToAllObjects(op, 1);
 #endif
 }
 
+void
+_Py_NewReference(PyObject *op)
+{
+#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
+    reftotal_increment();
+#endif
+    new_reference(op);
+}
+
+void
+_Py_NewReferenceNoTotal(PyObject *op)
+{
+    new_reference(op);
+}
+
 
 #ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
 void
diff --git a/Objects/structseq.c b/Objects/structseq.c
index 100ccfef0a23c4..c20962ecd82563 100644
--- a/Objects/structseq.c
+++ b/Objects/structseq.c
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ _PyStructSequence_FiniType(PyTypeObject *type)
     // Don't use Py_DECREF(): static type must not be deallocated
     Py_SET_REFCNT(type, 0);
 #ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
+    _Py_DecRefTotal();
 #endif
 
     // Make sure that _PyStructSequence_InitType() will initialize
diff --git a/Objects/tupleobject.c b/Objects/tupleobject.c
index 6ee93ab5adc281..59c0251639d3dd 100644
--- a/Objects/tupleobject.c
+++ b/Objects/tupleobject.c
@@ -930,10 +930,6 @@ _PyTuple_Resize(PyObject **pv, Py_ssize_t newsize)
         return *pv == NULL ? -1 : 0;
     }
 
-    /* XXX UNREF/NEWREF interface should be more symmetrical */
-#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
-#endif
     if (_PyObject_GC_IS_TRACKED(v)) {
         _PyObject_GC_UNTRACK(v);
     }
@@ -947,10 +943,13 @@ _PyTuple_Resize(PyObject **pv, Py_ssize_t newsize)
     sv = PyObject_GC_Resize(PyTupleObject, v, newsize);
     if (sv == NULL) {
         *pv = NULL;
+#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
+        _Py_DecRefTotal();
+#endif
         PyObject_GC_Del(v);
         return -1;
     }
-    _Py_NewReference((PyObject *) sv);
+    _Py_NewReferenceNoTotal((PyObject *) sv);
     /* Zero out items added by growing */
     if (newsize > oldsize)
         memset(&sv->ob_item[oldsize], 0,
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 1ba30421c66dba..2d50f9c340f2f3 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -947,21 +947,18 @@ resize_compact(PyObject *unicode, Py_ssize_t length)
         _PyUnicode_UTF8(unicode) = NULL;
         _PyUnicode_UTF8_LENGTH(unicode) = 0;
     }
-#ifdef Py_REF_DEBUG
-    _Py_RefTotal--;
-#endif
 #ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
     _Py_ForgetReference(unicode);
 #endif
 
     new_unicode = (PyObject *)PyObject_Realloc(unicode, new_size);
     if (new_unicode == NULL) {
-        _Py_NewReference(unicode);
+        _Py_NewReferenceNoTotal(unicode);
         PyErr_NoMemory();
         return NULL;
     }
     unicode = new_unicode;
-    _Py_NewReference(unicode);
+    _Py_NewReferenceNoTotal(unicode);
 
     _PyUnicode_LENGTH(unicode) = length;
 #ifdef Py_DEBUG