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[3.11] gh-91181: Add a What's New entry for dropping bytes support for sys.path (GH-94918) #94919

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[3.11] gh-91181: Add a What's New entry for dropping bytes support for sys.path (GH-94918) #94919

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coerces negative zero to zero after rounding to the format precision. See
:pep:`682` for more details. (Contributed by John Belmonte in :gh:`90153`.)

* Bytes are no longer accepted on :attr:`sys.path`. Support broke sometime
between Python 3.2 and 3.6 with no one noticing until after Python 3.10.0
was released. Bringing back support would also be problematic due to
interactions between :option:`-b` and :attr:`sys.path_importer_cache` when
there is a mixture of strings and bytes keys.
(Contributed by Thomas Grainger in :gh:`91181`.)

Other CPython Implementation Changes
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