build: support Python 3.11

PR-URL: nodejs/node#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

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ The Node.js project supports Python >= 3 for building and testing.
 
 * `gcc` and `g++` >= 8.3 or newer
 * GNU Make 3.81 or newer
-* Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, or 3.10 (see note above)
+* Python >=3.6 <=3.11 (see note above)
   * For test coverage, your Python installation must include pip.
 
 Installation via Linux package manager can be achieved with:
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ FreeBSD and OpenBSD users may also need to install `libexecinfo`.
 #### macOS prerequisites
 
 * Xcode Command Line Tools >= 11 for macOS
-* Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, or 3.10 (see note above)
+* Python >=3.6 <=3.11 (see note above)
   * For test coverage, your Python installation must include pip.
 
 macOS users can install the `Xcode Command Line Tools` by running
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ to run it again before invoking `make -j4`.
 
 ##### Option 1: Manual install
 
-* [Python 3.10](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/python-310/9pjpw5ldxlz5)
+* [Python 3.11](https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/python-311/9NRWMJP3717K)
 * The "Desktop development with C++" workload from
   [Visual Studio 2019](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) or
   the "C++ build tools" workload from the

configure

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # Note that the mix of single and double quotes is intentional,
 # as is the fact that the ] goes on a new line.
 _=[ 'exec' '/bin/sh' '-c' '''
+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 "$0" "$@"
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ except ImportError:
   from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
 
 print('Node.js configure: Found Python {}.{}.{}...'.format(*sys.version_info))
-acceptable_pythons = ((3, 10), (3, 9), (3, 8), (3, 7), (3, 6))
+acceptable_pythons = ((3, 11), (3, 10), (3, 9), (3, 8), (3, 7), (3, 6))
 if sys.version_info[:2] in acceptable_pythons:
   import configure
 else: