Python 3.10.8

Author: pablogsal

Include/patchlevel.h

@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        10
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        7
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        8
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.10.7+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.10.8"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.

Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Sep  5 13:02:42 2022
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Oct 11 12:21:26 2022
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -1674,10 +1674,26 @@
           'If the syntax "**expression" appears in the function call,\n'
           '"expression" must evaluate to a *mapping*, the contents of which '
           'are\n'
-          'treated as additional keyword arguments.  If a keyword is already\n'
-          'present (as an explicit keyword argument, or from another '
-          'unpacking),\n'
-          'a "TypeError" exception is raised.\n'
+          'treated as additional keyword arguments. If a parameter matching a '
+          'key\n'
+          'has already been given a value (by an explicit keyword argument, '
+          'or\n'
+          'from another unpacking), a "TypeError" exception is raised.\n'
+          '\n'
+          'When "**expression" is used, each key in this mapping must be a\n'
+          'string. Each value from the mapping is assigned to the first '
+          'formal\n'
+          'parameter eligible for keyword assignment whose name is equal to '
+          'the\n'
+          'key. A key need not be a Python identifier (e.g. ""max-temp °F"" '
+          'is\n'
+          'acceptable, although it will not match any formal parameter that '
+          'could\n'
+          'be declared). If there is no match to a formal parameter the '
+          'key-value\n'
+          'pair is collected by the "**" parameter, if there is one, or if '
+          'there\n'
+          'is not, a "TypeError" exception is raised.\n'
           '\n'
           'Formal parameters using the syntax "*identifier" or "**identifier"\n'
           'cannot be used as positional argument slots or as keyword argument\n'
@@ -12768,7 +12784,7 @@
           '         points. All the code points in the range "U+0000 - '
           'U+10FFFF"\n'
           '         can be represented in a string.  Python doesn’t have a '
-          '*char*\n'
+          'char\n'
           '         type; instead, every code point in the string is '
           'represented\n'
           '         as a string object with length "1".  The built-in '