Merge branch 'main' into feature/importlib-metadata-6.4.1

Author: jaraco

.gitattributes

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Lib/test/xmltestdata/*                     noeol
 
 # Shell scripts should have LF even on Windows because of Cygwin
 Lib/venv/scripts/common/activate text eol=lf
+Lib/venv/scripts/posix/* text eol=lf
 
 # CRLF files
 [attr]dos text eol=crlf

.github/workflows/project-updater.yml

@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ jobs:
           # if an issue has any of these labels, it will be added
           # to the corresponding project
           - { project:  2, label: "release-blocker, deferred-blocker" }
-          - { project:  3, label: expert-subinterpreters }
-          - { project: 29, label: expert-asyncio }
           - { project: 32, label: sprint }
 
     steps:

.github/workflows/verify-ensurepip-wheels.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Verify bundled pip and setuptools
+name: Verify bundled wheels
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: '3'
-      - name: Compare checksums of bundled pip and setuptools to ones published on PyPI
+      - name: Compare checksum of bundled wheels to the ones published on PyPI
         run: ./Tools/build/verify_ensurepip_wheels.py

Doc/conf.py

@@ -254,9 +254,14 @@
 # Options for the link checker
 # ----------------------------
 
-# Ignore certain URLs.
-linkcheck_ignore = [r'https://bugs.python.org/(issue)?\d+']
-
+linkcheck_allowed_redirects = {
+    # bpo-NNNN -> BPO -> GH Issues
+    r'https://bugs.python.org/issue\?@action=redirect&bpo=\d+': 'https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/\d+',
+    # GH-NNNN used to refer to pull requests
+    r'https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/\d+': 'https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/\d+',
+    # :source:`something` linking files in the repository
+    r'https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/.*': 'https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/.*'
+}
 
 # Options for extensions
 # ----------------------

Doc/library/optparse.rst

@@ -2027,7 +2027,7 @@ Features of note:
      values.ensure_value(attr, value)
 
   If the ``attr`` attribute of ``values`` doesn't exist or is ``None``, then
-  ensure_value() first sets it to ``value``, and then returns 'value. This is
+  ensure_value() first sets it to ``value``, and then returns ``value``. This is
   very handy for actions like ``"extend"``, ``"append"``, and ``"count"``, all
   of which accumulate data in a variable and expect that variable to be of a
   certain type (a list for the first two, an integer for the latter).  Using

Doc/library/string.rst

@@ -254,10 +254,10 @@ Some simple format string examples::
    "Units destroyed: {players[0]}"   # First element of keyword argument 'players'.
 
 The *conversion* field causes a type coercion before formatting.  Normally, the
-job of formatting a value is done by the :meth:`__format__` method of the value
+job of formatting a value is done by the :meth:`~object.__format__` method of the value
 itself.  However, in some cases it is desirable to force a type to be formatted
 as a string, overriding its own definition of formatting.  By converting the
-value to a string before calling :meth:`__format__`, the normal formatting logic
+value to a string before calling :meth:`~object.__format__`, the normal formatting logic
 is bypassed.
 
 Three conversion flags are currently supported: ``'!s'`` which calls :func:`str`

Doc/library/venv.rst

@@ -284,11 +284,14 @@ creation according to their needs, the :class:`EnvBuilder` class.
 
     .. method:: upgrade_dependencies(context)
 
-       Upgrades the core venv dependency packages (currently ``pip`` and
-       ``setuptools``) in the environment. This is done by shelling out to the
+       Upgrades the core venv dependency packages (currently ``pip``)
+       in the environment. This is done by shelling out to the
        ``pip`` executable in the environment.
 
        .. versionadded:: 3.9
+       .. versionchanged:: 3.12
+
+          ``setuptools`` is no longer a core venv dependency.
 
     .. method:: post_setup(context)
 

Doc/using/venv-create.inc

@@ -61,12 +61,16 @@ The command, if run with ``-h``, will show the available options::
                             environment (pip is bootstrapped by default)
       --prompt PROMPT       Provides an alternative prompt prefix for this
                             environment.
-      --upgrade-deps        Upgrade core dependencies: pip setuptools to the
+      --upgrade-deps        Upgrade core dependencies (pip) to the
                             latest version in PyPI
 
     Once an environment has been created, you may wish to activate it, e.g. by
     sourcing an activate script in its bin directory.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 3.12
+
+   ``setuptools`` is no longer a core venv dependency.
+
 .. versionchanged:: 3.9
    Add ``--upgrade-deps`` option to upgrade pip + setuptools to the latest on PyPI
 
@@ -104,4 +108,3 @@ invoked to bootstrap ``pip`` into the virtual environment.
 Multiple paths can be given to ``venv``, in which case an identical virtual
 environment will be created, according to the given options, at each provided
 path.
-

Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst

@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ csv
 
 * Add :data:`~csv.QUOTE_NOTNULL` and :data:`~csv.QUOTE_STRINGS` flags to
   provide finer grained control of ``None`` and empty strings by
-  :class:`~csv.reader` and :class:`~csv.writer` objects.
+  :class:`~csv.writer` objects.
 
 inspect
 -------
@@ -731,6 +731,24 @@ Removed
   project can be installed: it still provides ``distutils``.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`92584`.)
 
+* Remove the bundled setuptools wheel from :mod:`ensurepip`,
+  and stop installing setuptools in environments created by :mod:`venv`.
+
+  ``pip (>= 22.1)`` does not require setuptools to be installed in the
+  environment. ``setuptools``-based (and ``distutils``-based) packages
+  can still be used with ``pip install``, since pip will provide
+  ``setuptools`` in the build environment it uses for building a
+  package.
+
+  ``easy_install``, ``pkg_resources``, ``setuptools`` and ``distutils``
+  are no longer provided by default in environments created with
+  ``venv`` or bootstrapped with ``ensurepip``, since they are part of
+  the ``setuptools`` package. For projects relying on these at runtime,
+  the ``setuptools`` project should be declared as a dependency and
+  installed separately (typically, using pip).
+
+  (Contributed by Pradyun Gedam in :gh:`95299`.)
+
 * Removed many old deprecated :mod:`unittest` features:
 
   - A number of :class:`~unittest.TestCase` method aliases:

Lib/dataclasses.py

@@ -1128,8 +1128,13 @@ def _process_class(cls, init, repr, eq, order, unsafe_hash, frozen,
 
     if not getattr(cls, '__doc__'):
         # Create a class doc-string.
-        cls.__doc__ = (cls.__name__ +
-                       str(inspect.signature(cls)).replace(' -> None', ''))
+        try:
+            # In some cases fetching a signature is not possible.
+            # But, we surely should not fail in this case.
+            text_sig = str(inspect.signature(cls)).replace(' -> None', '')
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            text_sig = ''
+        cls.__doc__ = (cls.__name__ + text_sig)
 
     if match_args:
         # I could probably compute this once