Merge branch 'main' into gh-144766-fix-fork-test

Author: yonatan-genai

Doc/library/argparse.rst

@@ -1118,7 +1118,15 @@ User defined functions can be used as well:
 
 The :func:`bool` function is not recommended as a type converter.  All it does
 is convert empty strings to ``False`` and non-empty strings to ``True``.
-This is usually not what is desired.
+This is usually not what is desired::
+
+   >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+   >>> _ = parser.add_argument('--verbose', type=bool)
+   >>> parser.parse_args(['--verbose', 'False'])
+   Namespace(verbose=True)
+
+See :class:`BooleanOptionalAction` or ``action='store_true'`` for common
+alternatives.
 
 In general, the ``type`` keyword is a convenience that should only be used for
 simple conversions that can only raise one of the three supported exceptions.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2026-03-23-20-06-35.gh-issue-146210.C01Rmq.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix building the jit stencils on Windows when the interpreter is built with
+a different clang version. Patch by Chris Eibl.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2026-03-25-00-00-00.gh-issue-126676.052336.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Expand :mod:`argparse` documentation for ``type=bool`` with a demonstration
+of the surprising behavior and pointers to common alternatives.

Tools/jit/_llvm.py

@@ -42,9 +42,19 @@ async def _run(tool: str, args: typing.Iterable[str], echo: bool = False) -> str
     async with _CORES:
         if echo:
             print(shlex.join(command))
+
+        if os.name == "nt":
+            # When building with /p:PlatformToolset=ClangCL, the VS build
+            # system puts that clang's include path into INCLUDE. The JIT's
+            # clang may be a different version, and mismatched headers cause
+            # build errors. See https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/146210.
+            env = os.environ.copy()
+            env.pop("INCLUDE", None)
+        else:
+            env = None
         try:
             process = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
-                *command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE
+                *command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=env
             )
         except FileNotFoundError:
             return None