Mostly-null merge of #18116 backport (updated NEWS entry).

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do with byte strings.
- Issue #18116: getpass was always getting an error when testing /dev/tty,
and thus was always falling back to stdin. It also leaked an open file
when it did so. Both of these issues are now fixed.
and thus was always falling back to stdin, and would then raise an exception
if stdin could not be used (such as /dev/null). It also leaked an open file.
All of these issues are now fixed.
- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module. Patch by Valentina
Mukhamedzhanova.