sys._getframe audit event has frame as argument in 3.8-3.10

[Dutcho]

BPO	47192
Nosy	@zooba, @Dutcho

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[Dutcho]

Documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/library/audit_events.html and https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys._getframe) states that sys._getframe() "raises [...] an auditing event with no arguments".
However, Python 3.8-3.10 provide the frame as argument to the hook function. Python 3.11 behaves consistently with documentation.
But I couldn't find the change mentioned in the change log. Therefore, I'm uncertain whether that's intentional or not, so whether it'll remain in the release version.

This is demonstrated by running snippet audit.py

import sys
sys.addaudithook(print)
print(sys.version)
sys._getframe()

in various versions:

3.8.10 (tags/v3.8.10:3d8993a, May  3 2021, 11:48:03) [MSC v.1928 64 bit (AMD64)]
sys._getframe (<frame at 0x00000209AD68C440, file 'audit.py', line 4, code <module>>,)

3.9.11 (tags/v3.9.11:2de452f, Mar 16 2022, 14:33:45) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)]
sys._getframe (<frame at 0x00000199B7593FD0, file 'C:\\Users\\...\\audit.py', line 4, code <module>>,)

3.10.3 (tags/v3.10.3:a342a49, Mar 16 2022, 13:07:40) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)]
sys._getframe (<frame at 0x00000210B95E9C40, file 'C:\\Users\\...\\audit.py', line 4, code <module>>,)

3.11.0a6 (main, Mar  7 2022, 16:46:19) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)]
sys._getframe ()

[zooba]

This should be fixed in the docs and also in 3.11. Now that we've shipped releases that include the frame, we should keep doing it.

If it's impossible to get a frame object in 3.11 (because it would deoptimize all the work that's been done there), it should pass None. Changing the value of the argument is fine, but changing the schema is not.