build: support Python 3.11

PR-URL: nodejs#45191
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Moshe Atlow <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Christian Clauss <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Juan José Arboleda <[email protected]>

Author: lpinca

BUILDING.md

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ test with Python 3.
 * GNU Make 3.81 or newer
 * Python (see note above)
   * Python 2.7
-  * Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 or 3.10 (see note above)
+  * Python >=3.5 <=3.11 (see note above)
 
 Installation via Linux package manager can be achieved with:
 
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ FreeBSD and OpenBSD users may also need to install `libexecinfo`.
 * Xcode Command Line Tools >= 10 for macOS
 * Python (see note above)
   * Python 2.7
-  * Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, or 3.10 (see note above)
+  * Python >=3.5 <=3.11 (see note above)
 
 macOS users can install the `Xcode Command Line Tools` by running
 `xcode-select --install`. Alternatively, if you already have the full Xcode
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ to run it again before invoking `make -j4`.
 
 ##### Option 1: Manual install
 
-* [Python 3.8](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
+* [Python 3.11](https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/python-311/9NRWMJP3717K)
 * The "Desktop development with C++" workload from
   [Visual Studio 2017 or 2019](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) or
   the "Visual C++ build tools" workload from the

configure

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # as is the fact that the ] goes on a new line.
 _=[ 'exec' '/bin/sh' '-c' '''
 test ${FORCE_PYTHON2} && exec python2 "$0" "$@"  # workaround for gclient
+command -v python3.11 >/dev/null && exec python3.11 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.10 >/dev/null && exec python3.10 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.9 >/dev/null && exec python3.9 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.8 >/dev/null && exec python3.8 "$0" "$@"
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ except ImportError:
   from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
 
 print('Node.js configure: Found Python {0}.{1}.{2}...'.format(*sys.version_info))
-acceptable_pythons = ((3,10), (3, 9), (3, 8), (3, 7), (3, 6), (3, 5), (2, 7))
+acceptable_pythons = ((3,11), (3,10), (3, 9), (3, 8), (3, 7), (3, 6), (3, 5), (2, 7))
 if sys.version_info[:2] in acceptable_pythons:
   import configure
 else: