bpo-37759: Significant edits to Whatsnew 3.8 - #15127

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Add examples and explanations for the walrus operator
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Add motivating examples and rationale for positional-only arguments
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Add editor. Clean-up heading and intro.
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Add missing detail and examples to the f-string '=' specifier
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Add examples, motivation, and links for the modulo multiplicative inverse
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Add blurb
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Add testsetup for doctests
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Convert backslash to forward slash (spotted by Carol)
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Add example for unicode names in regular expressions
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Add a motivating example for math.prod()
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Minor grammar fix
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Remove the walrus operator anti-pattern examples (suggested by GvR)
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Dropped an unconventional preposition (suggested by Jeroen)
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