* Makes symtable.symtable have parity for accepted datatypes
for source code as compile()

* Add NEWS blurb

There is an extra "one" in the text description for the constant
socket.CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES

Original Pr was reformed and news not updated.




https://bugs.python.org/issue36933

On macOS, the multiprocessing module now uses the "spawn" start
method by default.

sys.excepthook() and sys.unraisablehook() now explicitly flush the
file (usually sys.stderr).

If file.flush() fails, sys.excepthook() silently ignores the error,
whereas sys.unraisablehook() logs the new exception.

Fix possible overflow in wrap_lenfunc() when
sizeof(long) < sizeof(Py_ssize_t) (e.g., 64-bit Windows).

Co-authored-by: Mark Shannon <mark@hotpy.org>

Per ae586497, time.monotonic is always available, making the old note outdated.

dynload_hpux.c: add #include "pycore_pystate.h" for
_PyInterpreterState_GET_UNSAFE().

Follow-up for #1067


https://bugs.python.org/issue29883

I tried to get rid of the `_ProtocolMeta`, but unfortunately it didn'y work. My idea to return a generic alias from `@runtime_checkable` made runtime protocols unpickleable. I am not sure what is worse (a custom metaclass or having some classes unpickleable), so I decided to stick with the status quo (since there were no complains so far). So essentially this is a copy of the implementation in `typing_extensions` with two modifications:
* Rename `@runtime` to `@runtime_checkable` (plus corresponding updates).
* Allow protocols that extend `collections.abc.Iterable` etc.

It has been documented as deprecated and to be removed in 3.8; 

From a comment on another thread – which I can't find ; leave get_coro_wrapper() for now, but always return `None`.


https://bugs.python.org/issue36933

Return a coroutine while patching async functions with a decorator. 
Co-authored-by: Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>


https://bugs.python.org/issue36996

https://bugs.python.org/issue36686

Fix destructor _pyio.BytesIO and _pyio.TextIOWrapper: initialize
their _buffer attribute as soon as possible (in the class body),
because it's used by __del__() which calls close().

Move doc entry to match menu and refactor zoom function.
A followup patch will include a blurb.

Add a new threading.excepthook() function which handles uncaught
Thread.run() exception. It can be overridden to control how uncaught
exceptions are handled.

threading.ExceptHookArgs is not documented on purpose: it should not
be used directly.

* threading.excepthook() and threading.ExceptHookArgs.
* Add _PyErr_Display(): similar to PyErr_Display(), but accept a
  'file' parameter.
* Add _thread._excepthook(): C implementation of the exception hook
  calling _PyErr_Display().
* Add _thread._ExceptHookArgs: structseq type.
* Add threading._invoke_excepthook_wrapper() which handles the gory
  details to ensure that everything remains alive during Python
  shutdown.
* Add unit tests.

https://bugs.python.org/issue36889

When using the "=" debug functionality of f-strings, use another Constant node (or a merged constant node) instead of adding expr_text to the FormattedValue node.

https://bugs.python.org/issue32941

There is a duplicated "in" in the Supported Versions text.

Allow mmap objects to access the madvise() system call.

* Add a whole new documentation page:
  "Python Initialization Configuration"
* PyWideStringList_Append() return type is now PyStatus,
  instead of int
* PyInterpreterState_New() now calls PyConfig_Clear() if
  PyConfig_InitPythonConfig() fails.
* Rename files:

  * Python/coreconfig.c => Python/initconfig.c
  * Include/cpython/coreconfig.h => Include/cpython/initconfig.h
  * Include/internal/: pycore_coreconfig.h => pycore_initconfig.h

* Rename structures

  * _PyCoreConfig => PyConfig
  * _PyPreConfig => PyPreConfig
  * _PyInitError => PyStatus
  * _PyWstrList => PyWideStringList

* Rename PyConfig fields:

  * use_module_search_paths => module_search_paths_set
  * module_search_path_env => pythonpath_env

* Rename PyStatus field: _func => func
* PyInterpreterState: rename core_config field to config
* Rename macros and functions:

  * _PyCoreConfig_SetArgv() => PyConfig_SetBytesArgv()
  * _PyCoreConfig_SetWideArgv() => PyConfig_SetArgv()
  * _PyCoreConfig_DecodeLocale() => PyConfig_SetBytesString()
  * _PyInitError_Failed() => PyStatus_Exception()
  * _Py_INIT_ERROR_TYPE_xxx enums => _PyStatus_TYPE_xxx
  * _Py_UnixMain() => Py_BytesMain()
  * _Py_ExitInitError() => Py_ExitStatusException()
  * _Py_PreInitializeFromArgs() => Py_PreInitializeFromBytesArgs()
  * _Py_PreInitializeFromWideArgs() => Py_PreInitializeFromArgs()
  * _Py_PreInitialize() => Py_PreInitialize()
  * _Py_RunMain() => Py_RunMain()
  * _Py_InitializeFromConfig() => Py_InitializeFromConfig()
  * _Py_INIT_XXX() => _PyStatus_XXX()
  * _Py_INIT_FAILED() => _PyStatus_EXCEPTION()

* Rename 'err' PyStatus variables to 'status'
* Convert RUN_CODE() macro to config_run_code() static inline function
* Remove functions:

  * _Py_InitializeFromArgs()
  * _Py_InitializeFromWideArgs()
  * _PyInterpreterState_GetCoreConfig()

Return a safe to use proxy socket object from `transport.get_extra_info('socket')`




https://bugs.python.org/issue37027

https://bugs.python.org/issue37035

Handle late binding and attribute access in unittest.mock.AsyncMock
setup for autospeccing.

This will address the common mistake many asyncio users make:
an "except Exception" clause breaking Tasks cancellation.

In addition to this change, we stop inheriting asyncio.TimeoutError
and asyncio.InvalidStateError from their concurrent.futures.*
counterparts.  There's no point for these exceptions to share the
inheritance chain.

In 3.9 we'll focus on implementing supervisors and cancel scopes,
which should allow better handling of all exceptions, including
SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt