Merge branch 'main' into argparse-filetype-deprecate

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -280,3 +280,5 @@ Lib/test/test_configparser.py @jaraco
 
 # Doc sections
 Doc/reference/                @willingc
+
+**/*weakref*                  @kumaraditya303

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug.yml

@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ body:
       label: "CPython versions tested on:"
       multiple: true
       options:
-        - "3.8"
         - "3.9"
         - "3.10"
         - "3.11"
         - "3.12"
         - "3.13"
+        - "3.14"
         - "CPython main branch"
     validations:
       required: true

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/crash.yml

@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ body:
       label: "CPython versions tested on:"
       multiple: true
       options:
-        - "3.8"
         - "3.9"
         - "3.10"
         - "3.11"
         - "3.12"
         - "3.13"
+        - "3.14"
         - "CPython main branch"
     validations:
       required: true

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -40,6 +40,50 @@ jobs:
     if: fromJSON(needs.check_source.outputs.run-docs)
     uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-docs.yml
 
+  check_autoconf_regen:
+    name: 'Check if Autoconf files are up to date'
+    # Don't use ubuntu-latest but a specific version to make the job
+    # reproducible: to get the same tools versions (autoconf, aclocal, ...)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    container:
+      image: ghcr.io/python/autoconf:2024.10.11.11293396815
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    needs: check_source
+    if: needs.check_source.outputs.run_tests == 'true'
+    steps:
+      - name: Install Git
+        run: |
+          apt install git -yq
+          git config --global --add safe.directory "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE"
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 1
+      - name: Runner image version
+        run: echo "IMAGE_VERSION=${ImageVersion}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Check Autoconf and aclocal versions
+        run: |
+          grep "Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71" configure
+          grep "aclocal 1.16.5" aclocal.m4
+          grep -q "runstatedir" configure
+          grep -q "PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG" aclocal.m4
+      - name: Regenerate autoconf files
+        # Same command used by Tools/build/regen-configure.sh ($AUTORECONF)
+        run: autoreconf -ivf -Werror
+      - name: Check for changes
+        run: |
+          git add -u
+          changes=$(git status --porcelain)
+          # Check for changes in regenerated files
+          if test -n "$changes"; then
+            echo "Generated files not up to date."
+            echo "Perhaps you forgot to run make regen-all or build.bat --regen. ;)"
+            echo "configure files must be regenerated with a specific version of autoconf."
+            echo "$changes"
+            echo ""
+            git diff --staged || true
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
   check_generated_files:
     name: 'Check if generated files are up to date'
     # Don't use ubuntu-latest but a specific version to make the job
@@ -69,19 +113,10 @@ jobs:
         uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@v1.2
         with:
           save: false
-      - name: Check Autoconf and aclocal versions
-        run: |
-          grep "Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71" configure
-          grep "aclocal 1.16.5" aclocal.m4
-          grep -q "runstatedir" configure
-          grep -q "PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG" aclocal.m4
       - name: Configure CPython
         run: |
           # Build Python with the libpython dynamic library
           ./configure --config-cache --with-pydebug --enable-shared
-      - name: Regenerate autoconf files
-        # Same command used by Tools/build/regen-configure.sh ($AUTORECONF)
-        run: autoreconf -ivf -Werror
       - name: Build CPython
         run: |
           make -j4 regen-all
@@ -501,6 +536,7 @@ jobs:
     needs:
     - check_source  # Transitive dependency, needed to access `run_tests` value
     - check-docs
+    - check_autoconf_regen
     - check_generated_files
     - build_macos
     - build_ubuntu
@@ -536,6 +572,7 @@ jobs:
           ${{
             needs.check_source.outputs.run_tests != 'true'
             && '
+            check_autoconf_regen,
             check_generated_files,
             build_macos,
             build_ubuntu,

.github/workflows/mypy.yml

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
+          python-version: "3.13"
           cache: pip
           cache-dependency-path: Tools/requirements-dev.txt
       - run: pip install -r Tools/requirements-dev.txt

.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 apt-get update
 
-# autoconf-archive is needed by autoreconf (check_generated_files job)
 apt-get -yq install \
     build-essential \
     pkg-config \
-    autoconf-archive \
     ccache \
     gdb \
     lcov \

.github/workflows/reusable-change-detection.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
----
-
-name: Change detection
+name: Reusable change detection
 
 on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
   workflow_call:

.github/workflows/reusable-docs.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Docs
+name: Reusable Docs
 
 on:
   workflow_call:
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: 'Set up Python'
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: '3.12'  # known to work with Sphinx 6.2.1
+        python-version: '3.13'  # known to work with Sphinx 7.2.6
         cache: 'pip'
         cache-dependency-path: 'Doc/requirements-oldest-sphinx.txt'
     - name: 'Install build dependencies'
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ jobs:
   # Run "doctest" on HEAD as new syntax doesn't exist in the latest stable release
   doctest:
     name: 'Doctest'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     timeout-minutes: 60
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/reusable-macos.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+name: Reusable macOS
+
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:

.github/workflows/reusable-tsan.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+name: Reusable Thread Sanitizer
+
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:

.github/workflows/reusable-ubuntu.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+name: Reusable Ubuntu
+
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:

.github/workflows/reusable-wasi.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+name: Reusable WASI
+
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:

.github/workflows/reusable-windows-msi.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: TestsMSI
+name: Reusable Windows MSI
 
 on:
   workflow_call:

.github/workflows/reusable-windows.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+name: Reusable Windows
+
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:

Doc/c-api/contextvars.rst

@@ -123,20 +123,14 @@ Context object management functions:
 
    Enumeration of possible context object watcher events:
 
-   - ``Py_CONTEXT_EVENT_ENTER``: A context has been entered, causing the
-     :term:`current context` to switch to it.  The object passed to the watch
-     callback is the now-current :class:`contextvars.Context` object.  Each
-     enter event will eventually have a corresponding exit event for the same
-     context object after any subsequently entered contexts have themselves been
-     exited.
-   - ``Py_CONTEXT_EVENT_EXIT``: A context is about to be exited, which will
-     cause the :term:`current context` to switch back to what it was before the
-     context was entered.  The object passed to the watch callback is the
-     still-current :class:`contextvars.Context` object.
+   - ``Py_CONTEXT_SWITCHED``: The :term:`current context` has switched to a
+     different context.  The object passed to the watch callback is the
+     now-current :class:`contextvars.Context` object, or None if no context is
+     current.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.14
 
-.. c:type:: int (*PyContext_WatchCallback)(PyContextEvent event, PyContext* ctx)
+.. c:type:: int (*PyContext_WatchCallback)(PyContextEvent event, PyObject *obj)
 
    Context object watcher callback function.  The object passed to the callback
    is event-specific; see :c:type:`PyContextEvent` for details.

Doc/c-api/init.rst

@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ Process-wide parameters
    returned string points into static storage; the caller should not modify its
    value.  This corresponds to the :makevar:`prefix` variable in the top-level
    :file:`Makefile` and the :option:`--prefix` argument to the :program:`configure`
-   script at build time.  The value is available to Python code as ``sys.prefix``.
+   script at build time.  The value is available to Python code as ``sys.base_prefix``.
    It is only useful on Unix.  See also the next function.
 
    This function should not be called before :c:func:`Py_Initialize`, otherwise
@@ -635,7 +635,8 @@ Process-wide parameters
       It now returns ``NULL`` if called before :c:func:`Py_Initialize`.
 
    .. deprecated-removed:: 3.13 3.15
-      Get :data:`sys.prefix` instead.
+      Get :data:`sys.base_prefix` instead, or :data:`sys.prefix` if
+      :ref:`virtual environments <venv-def>` need to be handled.
 
 
 .. c:function:: wchar_t* Py_GetExecPrefix()
@@ -648,7 +649,8 @@ Process-wide parameters
    should not modify its value.  This corresponds to the :makevar:`exec_prefix`
    variable in the top-level :file:`Makefile` and the ``--exec-prefix``
    argument to the :program:`configure` script at build  time.  The value is
-   available to Python code as ``sys.exec_prefix``.  It is only useful on Unix.
+   available to Python code as ``sys.base_exec_prefix``.  It is only useful on
+   Unix.
 
    Background: The exec-prefix differs from the prefix when platform dependent
    files (such as executables and shared libraries) are installed in a different
@@ -679,7 +681,8 @@ Process-wide parameters
       It now returns ``NULL`` if called before :c:func:`Py_Initialize`.
 
    .. deprecated-removed:: 3.13 3.15
-      Get :data:`sys.exec_prefix` instead.
+      Get :data:`sys.base_exec_prefix` instead, or :data:`sys.exec_prefix` if
+      :ref:`virtual environments <venv-def>` need to be handled.
 
 
 .. c:function:: wchar_t* Py_GetProgramFullPath()
@@ -1195,7 +1198,7 @@ code, or when embedding the Python interpreter:
       created by Python.  Refer to
       :ref:`cautions-regarding-runtime-finalization` for more details.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: next
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.14
       Hangs the current thread, rather than terminating it, if called while the
       interpreter is finalizing.
 
@@ -1257,7 +1260,7 @@ with sub-interpreters:
       created by Python.  Refer to
       :ref:`cautions-regarding-runtime-finalization` for more details.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: next
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.14
       Hangs the current thread, rather than terminating it, if called while the
       interpreter is finalizing.
 
@@ -1547,7 +1550,7 @@ All of the following functions must be called after :c:func:`Py_Initialize`.
       :c:func:`Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS`, and :c:func:`PyGILState_Ensure`,
       and terminate the current thread if called while the interpreter is finalizing.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: next
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.14
       Hangs the current thread, rather than terminating it, if called while the
       interpreter is finalizing.
 
@@ -2418,7 +2421,7 @@ Example usage::
 
 In the above example, :c:macro:`Py_SETREF` calls :c:macro:`Py_DECREF`, which
 can call arbitrary code through an object's deallocation function.  The critical
-section API avoids potentital deadlocks due to reentrancy and lock ordering
+section API avoids potential deadlocks due to reentrancy and lock ordering
 by allowing the runtime to temporarily suspend the critical section if the
 code triggered by the finalizer blocks and calls :c:func:`PyEval_SaveThread`.
 

Doc/c-api/init_config.rst

@@ -1621,6 +1621,8 @@ Create Config
 
    Free memory of the initialization configuration *config*.
 
+   If *config* is ``NULL``, no operation is performed.
+
 
 Error Handling
 --------------
@@ -1823,14 +1825,18 @@ return ``-1`` on error:
         PyInitConfig_Free(config);
         return 0;
 
-        // Display the error message
-        const char *err_msg;
     error:
-        (void)PyInitConfig_GetError(config, &err_msg);
-        printf("PYTHON INIT ERROR: %s\n", err_msg);
-        PyInitConfig_Free(config);
+        {
+            // Display the error message
+            // This uncommon braces style is used, because you cannot make
+            // goto targets point to variable declarations.
+            const char *err_msg;
+            (void)PyInitConfig_GetError(config, &err_msg);
+            printf("PYTHON INIT ERROR: %s\n", err_msg);
+            PyInitConfig_Free(config);
 
-        return -1;
+            return -1;
+        }
     }
 
 

Doc/c-api/long.rst

@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ distinguished from a number.  Use :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to disambiguate.
       free(bignum);
 
    *flags* is either ``-1`` (``Py_ASNATIVEBYTES_DEFAULTS``) to select defaults
-   that behave most like a C cast, or a combintation of the other flags in
+   that behave most like a C cast, or a combination of the other flags in
    the table below.
    Note that ``-1`` cannot be combined with other flags.
 
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ distinguished from a number.  Use :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to disambiguate.
    On failure, return -1 with an exception set.  This function always succeeds
    if *obj* is a :c:type:`PyLongObject` or its subtype.
 
-   .. versionadded:: next
+   .. versionadded:: 3.14
 
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyLong_GetInfo(void)
@@ -608,10 +608,15 @@ distinguished from a number.  Use :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to disambiguate.
    Exactly what values are considered compact is an implementation detail
    and is subject to change.
 
+   .. versionadded:: 3.12
+
+
 .. c:function:: Py_ssize_t PyUnstable_Long_CompactValue(const PyLongObject* op)
 
    If *op* is compact, as determined by :c:func:`PyUnstable_Long_IsCompact`,
    return its value.
 
    Otherwise, the return value is undefined.
 
+   .. versionadded:: 3.12
+

Doc/c-api/monitoring.rst

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ would typically correspond to a python function.
 
    The ``version`` argument is a pointer to a value which should be allocated
    by the user together with ``state_array`` and initialized to 0,
-   and then set only by :c:func:`!PyMonitoring_EnterScope` itelf. It allows this
+   and then set only by :c:func:`!PyMonitoring_EnterScope` itself. It allows this
    function to determine whether event states have changed since the previous call,
    and to return quickly if they have not.