avoid crashes and lockups from daemon threads during interpreter shutdown (#1856)
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
+ interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they
+ try to take the GIL.
+
- Issue #19656: Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about
non-ascii bytes literals.