With respect to unittest module. It now has the ability to collect async functions where before 3.8 tests have to be a normal function that could have an async definition inside and uses asyncio.run or loop to run it. This was not mentioned in whatsnew. Maybe a good addition given it improves testing asyncio code. Relevant commit : 4dd3e3f

import asyncio
import unittest

from unittest.async_case import IsolatedAsyncioTestCase

class FooTest(IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):

    async def asyncSetUp(self):
        print("Async Setup")

    async def test_sleep(self):
        await asyncio.sleep(1)
        self.assertEqual(1, 1)

    async def asyncTearDown(self):
        print("Async Teardown")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

./python.exe /tmp/foo.py
Async Setup
Async Teardown
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 1.028s

OK

Thanks for improving the changelog examples.

tirkarthi , thanks for the suggestions. I'll add the unittest example to the next round of updates (I'm making multiple PRs to minimize merge conflicts).

Thanks @rhettinger for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.8.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

GH-15139 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.8 branch.