gh-150626: Update "Format String Syntax" documentation block to match actual behaviour#132736

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gh-150626: Update Format String Syntax documentation
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Update Doc/library/string.rst

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gh-150942: Optimize PicklerMemoProxy.copy() with _PyDict_SetItem_Take2 (gh-151608)

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docs: Fix indent misalignment in `library/logging.config.rst` (GH-151617)

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gh-151623: Improve curses documentation and docstrings (GH-151625)

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gh-151623: Improve curses documentation style (#151635)

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gh-151623: Add missing curses docstrings and document intrflush() (#151632)

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gh-151229: Finalize JIT tracer in test eval-frame stub (gh-151609)

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gh-86726: Document the full public API of tkinter (GH-151579)

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gh-141510 Document and test frozendict class matching behaviour (#150799)

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gh-86726: Fix "deprecated" directive for wm_attributes (GH-151652)

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GH-150516: Reduce the work done to spill and reload the stack around calls (GH-151587)

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gh-86726: Fix the documented return type of tkinter info_patchlevel() (GH-151655)

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gh-86726: Add few missing versionadded directives (GH-151662)

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gh-146353: Document `PyBytesWriter_GetData` pointer validity (GH-151418)

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docs: Fix broken reference of parameter type in `library/logging.rst` (GH-151645)

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gh-151229: Add CI to prevent JIT stress test regression (#151647)

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gh-145177: Bump Emscripten to 6.0.0 (#151611)

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gh-101100: Document os.uname_result and os.statvfs_result with related constants (GH-151301)

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gh-151427: add 'not macOS' and 'not iOS' restrictions on availability state of some functions in `os` module. (#151537)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.Text (GH-151681)

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gh-151695: Fix use-after-free of the curses screen encoding (GH-151696)

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gh-141510 Add frozendict fast paths to abstract.c (#150692)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.Menu (GH-151685)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.Listbox (GH-151686)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.Canvas (GH-151683)

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gh-151693: Add curses tests for panels, textpad, and window behavior (GH-151694)

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gh-151678: Add tests for the remaining tkinter widgets (GH-151687)

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gh-151693: Make the curses tests portable to other curses implementations (GH-151729)

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gh-150836: Mount embedded Tk ZIP in _tkinter on Windows (GH-151562)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter Misc, Wm and geometry manager methods (GH-151732)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.ttk methods (GH-151736)

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gh-151744: Add curses.nofilter() (GH-151747)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter font, image, variable, Misc and Wm methods (GH-151751)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.scrolledtext (GH-151753)

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gh-151674: Add tkinter Text.edit_canundo() and Text.edit_canredo() (GH-151676)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.dnd (GH-151780)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.filedialog (GH-151781)

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gh-151678: Add tests for the remaining tkinter Misc, Wm and Text methods (GH-151782)

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gh-151678: Add interactive tests for tkinter.simpledialog (GH-151794)

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gh-151675: Add tkinter Text.sync() and Text.pendingsync() (GH-151677)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter widget virtual events (GH-151793)

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gh-151770: Fix `datetime.fromisoformat()` on an out-of-range month w/ a 24:00 time (#151771)

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gh-51067: Add `remove()` and `repack()` to `ZipFile` (GH-134627)

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gh-84649: Fix unstable test_rollover_at_midnight (GH-151813)

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gh-150831: docs: clarify generator, generator function, and generator iterator in glossary (#150905)

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RTD Previews: Get correct base branch for backports (#150690)

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gh-86726: Document tkinter.simpledialog query options and Dialog.result (GH-151851)

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gh-151678: Add tests for tkinter.simpledialog (GH-151856)

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gh-151845: Fix formatfloat() return-value contract in unicode_format.c (#151846)

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gh-151596: Add missing argument 'size' to pure-Python implementation of `TextIOBase.readline` (GH-151679)

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gh-151665: Fix inspect.signature() on type alias and type parameter evaluators (#151837)

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gh-142387: Revert Android testbed to API level 35 (#151816)

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gh-151042: venv: Pass VIRTUAL_ENV through cygpath inside fish on Windows (GH-151043)

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gh-151905: fix memory error handling in PyFrame_GetBack (#151906)

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gh-151914: Copyedit "What's new in Python 3.16" (#151915)

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gh-144133: Add a warning to the `encodings.punycode` documentation (#151812)

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gh-151874: Add tkinter wm_stackorder, wm_iconbadge and winfo_isdark (GH-151875)

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gh-86726: Document tkinter method-name conflicts (GH-151917)

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gh-151878: Add tkinter Entry and Spinbox validate methods (GH-151879)

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gh-151910: Add tkinter.ttk.Treeview methods for the Tk 9.1 enhanced treeview (GH-151911)

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gh-151876: Add tkinter Canvas methods rotate and rchars (GH-151877)

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gh-151881: Add tkinter Menu.postcascade, Misc.tk_scaling and tk_inactive (GH-151882)

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gh-151126: Fix missing `PyErr_NoMemory` in `getpath.c` (#151590)

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gh-124113: Clarify venv target directory reuse (#151419)

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Correct typos in `runpy.run_path` documentation (#151230)

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gh-151866: Remove unneeded `zlib` dependency in `test_zipfile.test_core` (#135631)

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gh-151560: fix `AttributeError` when running `test.test_importlib.resources.test_resource` (#151561)

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gh-127727: Warn when running a virtual environment created for a different minor Python version (#149715)

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gh-111501: venv: do not export PS1 in activate (#105279)

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gh-151888: Add tkinter PhotoImage.redither method (GH-151889)

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gh-140006: Harden fish prompt against shadowed builtins (#150936)

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gh-150162: Fix sysconfig cross-compile impermanence (#150164)

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gh-151890: Support more photo image options in tkinter.PhotoImage methods (GH-151891)

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gh-151886: Add tkinter Misc.tk_appname, tk_useinputmethods and tk_caret (GH-151887)

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gh-151920: Add the ttk.Style.theme_styles() method (GH-151921)

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gh-62480: De-personalize docs on using the C API (#151784)

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GH-150605: use windows-2025 in GitHub Actions (#150606)

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gh-151722: Defer GC tracking of frozendict to end of construction (gh-151740)

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gh-75666: Fix a reference leak in tkinter event bindings (GH-151808)

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gh-151678: Add tests for ttk Menubutton and OptionMenu widget options (GH-151960)

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gh-101284: Allow passing Menubutton options to tkinter.OptionMenu (GH-151959)

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gh-59396: Modernize tkinter.simpledialog (GH-151848)

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gh-151497: Avoid huge pre-allocation for oversized tarfile extended headers (GH-151498)

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Clarify `multiprocessing.Queue.get_nowait()` documentation (#150863)

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gh-151556: Show example CSV file content in the `csv` module docs (#151563)

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gh-151981: Make tarfile._Stream.seek break at EOF (GH-151982)

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gh-151558: Fix symlink escape via `tarfile` hardlink-extraction fallback (GH-151559)

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gh-143927: Normalize all line endings (CR, CRLF, and LF) in configparser (GH-143929)

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gh-151773: Fix NULL dereference in `PyContextVar_Set` (#151836)

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gh-151126: Add missing `PyErr_NoMemory()` in `type_from_slots_or_spec` (#151582)

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gh-150565: Add additional tests for Lazy Imports (#149739)

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gh-151842: Fix crash upon OOM in `_interpreters.capture_exception` (GH-151843)

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