bpo-41686, bpo-41713: On Windows, the SIGINT event,
_PyOS_SigintEvent(), is now created even if Python is configured to
not install signal handlers (PyConfig.install_signal_handlers=0 or
Py_InitializeEx(0)).

(cherry picked from commit 05a5d697f4f097f37c5c1e2ed0e2338a33c3fb6a)

* bpo-40826: Fix GIL usage in PyOS_Readline() (GH-20579)

Fix GIL usage in PyOS_Readline(): lock the GIL to set an exception.

Pass tstate to my_fgets() and _PyOS_WindowsConsoleReadline(). Cleanup
these functions.

(cherry picked from commit c353764fd564e401cf47a5d9efab18c72c60014e)

* bpo-40826: Add _PyOS_InterruptOccurred(tstate) function (GH-20599)

my_fgets() now calls _PyOS_InterruptOccurred(tstate) to check for
pending signals, rather calling PyOS_InterruptOccurred().

my_fgets() is called with the GIL released, whereas
PyOS_InterruptOccurred() must be called with the GIL held.

test_repl: use text=True and avoid SuppressCrashReport in
test_multiline_string_parsing().

Fix my_fgets() on Windows: fgets(fp) does crash if fileno(fp) is closed.

(cherry picked from commit fa7ab6aa0f9a4f695e5525db5a113cd21fa93787)

* bpo-36389: _PyObject_CheckConsistency() available in release mode (GH-16612)

bpo-36389, bpo-38376: The _PyObject_CheckConsistency() function is
now also available in release mode. For example, it can be used to
debug a crash in the visit_decref() function of the GC.

Modify the following functions to also work in release mode:

* _PyDict_CheckConsistency()
* _PyObject_CheckConsistency()
* _PyType_CheckConsistency()
* _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency()

Other changes:

* _PyMem_IsPtrFreed(ptr) now also returns 1 if ptr is NULL
  (equals to 0).
* _PyBytesWriter_CheckConsistency() now returns 1 and is only used
  with assert().
* Reorder _PyObject_Dump() to write safe fields first, and only
  attempt to render repr() at the end.

(cherry picked from commit 6876257eaabdb30f27ebcbd7d2557278ce2e5705)

* bpo-36389: Fix _PyBytesWriter in release mode (GH-16624)

Fix _PyBytesWriter API when Python is built in release mode with
assertions.

(cherry picked from commit 60ec6efd96d95476fe5e38c491491add04f026e5)

* bpo-38070: Enhance visit_decref() debug trace (GH-16631)

subtract_refs() now pass the parent object to visit_decref() which
pass it to _PyObject_ASSERT(). So if the "is freed" assertion fails,
the parent is used in debug trace, rather than the freed object. The
parent object is more likely to contain useful information. Freed
objects cannot be inspected are are displayed as "<object at xxx is
freed>" with no other detail.

(cherry picked from commit 4d5f94b8cd20f804c7868c5395a15aa6032f874c)

* Fix also a typo in PYMEM_DEADBYTE macro comment

* bpo-36389: Add newline to _PyObject_AssertFailed() (GH-16629)

Add a newline between the verbose object dump and the Py_FatalError()
logs for readability.

(cherry picked from commit 7775349895088a7ae68cecf0c74cf817f15e2c74)

Always define _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() in the CPython C API.

PyConfig_InitPythonConfig() and PyConfig_InitIsolatedConfig() no
longer return PyStatus: they cannot fail anymore.
(cherry picked from commit 8462a4936b3a551dc546a6adea04a70b0a07ca67)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>

For now, we'll rely on the fact that the config structures aren't covered by the stable ABI.

We may revisit this in the future if we further explore the idea of offering a stable embedding API.

Fix warnings options priority: PyConfig.warnoptions has the highest
priority, as stated in the PEP 587.

* Document options order in PyConfig.warnoptions documentation.
* Make PyWideStringList_INIT macro private: replace "Py" prefix
  with "_Py".
* test_embed: add test_init_warnoptions().
(cherry picked from commit fb4ae152a9930f0e00cae8b2807f534058cf341a)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>

Add a new struct_size field to PyPreConfig and PyConfig structures to
allow to modify these structures in the future without breaking the
backward compatibility.

* Replace private _config_version field with public struct_size field
  in PyPreConfig and PyConfig.
* Public PyPreConfig_InitIsolatedConfig() and
  PyPreConfig_InitPythonConfig()
  return type becomes PyStatus, instead of void.
* Internal _PyConfig_InitCompatConfig(),
  _PyPreConfig_InitCompatConfig(), _PyPreConfig_InitFromConfig(),
  _PyPreConfig_InitFromPreConfig() return type becomes PyStatus,
  instead of void.
* Remove _Py_CONFIG_VERSION
* Update the Initialization Configuration documentation.

(cherry picked from commit 441b10cf2855955c86565f8d59e72c2efc0f0a57)

* bpo-38234: Py_SetPath() uses the program full path (GH-16357)

Py_SetPath() now sets sys.executable to the program full path
(Py_GetProgramFullPath()), rather than to the program name
(Py_GetProgramName()).

Fix also memory leaks in pathconfig_set_from_config().

(cherry picked from commit 1ce152a42eaa917d7763bce93f1e1ca72530d7ca)

* bpo-38234: Add tests for Python init path config (GH-16358)


(cherry picked from commit bb6bf7d342b4503a6227fd209fac934905b6a1aa)

* bpo-38234: test_embed: test pyvenv.cfg and pybuilddir.txt (GH-16366)

Add test_init_pybuilddir() and test_init_pyvenv_cfg() to test_embed
to test pyvenv.cfg and pybuilddir.txt configuration files.

Fix sysconfig._generate_posix_vars(): pybuilddir.txt uses UTF-8
encoding, not ASCII.

(cherry picked from commit 52ad33abbfb6637d74932617c7013bae0ccf6e32)

* bpo-38234: Cleanup getpath.c (GH-16367)

* search_for_prefix() directly calls reduce() if found is greater
  than 0.
* Add calculate_pybuilddir() subfunction.
* search_for_prefix(): add path string buffer for readability.
* Fix some error handling code paths: release resources on error.
* calculate_read_pyenv(): rename tmpbuffer to filename.
* test.pythoninfo now also logs windows.dll_path

(cherry picked from commit 221fd84703c545408bbb4a6e0b58459651331f5c)

* bpo-38234: Fix test_embed pathconfig tests (GH-16390)

bpo-38234: On macOS and FreeBSD, the temporary directory can be
symbolic link. For example, /tmp can be a symbolic link to /var/tmp.
Call realpath() to resolve all symbolic links.

(cherry picked from commit 00508a7407d7d300b487532e2271534b20e378a7)

* bpo-38234: Add test_init_setpath_config() to test_embed (GH-16402)

* Add test_embed.test_init_setpath_config(): test Py_SetPath()
  with PyConfig.
* test_init_setpath() and test_init_setpythonhome() no longer call
  Py_SetProgramName(), but use the default program name.
* _PyPathConfig: isolated, site_import  and base_executable
  fields are now only available on Windows.
* If executable is set explicitly in the configuration, ignore
  calculated base_executable: _PyConfig_InitPathConfig() copies
  executable to base_executable.
* Complete path config documentation.

(cherry picked from commit 8bf39b606ef7b02c0279a80789f3c4824b0da5e9)

* bpo-38234: Complete init config documentation (GH-16404)


(cherry picked from commit 88feaecd46a8f427e30ef7ad8cfcddfe392a2402)

* bpo-38234: Fix test_embed.test_init_setpath_config() on FreeBSD (GH-16406)

Explicitly preinitializes with a Python preconfiguration to avoid
Py_SetPath() implicit preinitialization with a compat
preconfiguration.

Fix also test_init_setpath() and test_init_setpythonhome() on macOS:
use self.test_exe as the executable (and base_executable), rather
than shutil.which('python3').

(cherry picked from commit 49d99f01e6e51acec5ca57a02e857f0796bc418b)

* bpo-38234: Py_Initialize() sets global path configuration (GH-16421)

* Py_InitializeFromConfig() now writes PyConfig path configuration to
  the global path configuration (_Py_path_config).
* Add test_embed.test_get_pathconfig().
* Fix typo in _PyWideStringList_Join().

(cherry picked from commit 12f2f177fc483723406d7917194e7f655a20631b)

Python now dumps path configuration if it fails to import the Python
codecs of the filesystem and stdio encodings.

(cherry picked from commit fcdb027234566c4d506d6d753c7d5638490fb088)