Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main' into move-magic-number

Author: mdboom

Doc/library/sys.monitoring.rst

@@ -226,6 +226,10 @@ To allow tools to monitor for real exceptions without slowing down generators
 and coroutines, the :monitoring-event:`STOP_ITERATION` event is provided.
 :monitoring-event:`STOP_ITERATION` can be locally disabled, unlike :monitoring-event:`RAISE`.
 
+Note that the :monitoring-event:`STOP_ITERATION` event and the :monitoring-event:`RAISE`
+event for a :exc:`StopIteration` exception are equivalent, and are treated as interchangeable
+when generating events. Implementations will favor :monitoring-event:`STOP_ITERATION` for
+performance reasons, but may generate a :monitoring-event:`RAISE` event with a :exc:`StopIteration`.
 
 Turning events on and off
 -------------------------

Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst

@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ Other Language Changes
   command line option. For example, ``python -O -c 'assert await 1'``
   now produces a :exc:`SyntaxError`. (Contributed by Jelle Zijlstra in :gh:`121637`.)
 
+* Writes to ``__debug__`` are now detected even if the code is optimized
+  away by the :option:`-O` command line option. For example,
+  ``python -O -c 'assert (__debug__ := 1)'`` now produces a
+  :exc:`SyntaxError`. (Contributed by Irit Katriel in :gh:`122245`.)
+
 * Added class methods :meth:`float.from_number` and :meth:`complex.from_number`
   to convert a number to :class:`float` or :class:`complex` type correspondingly.
   They raise an error if the argument is a string.