Isolate the_io extension module by moving all global variables to module state, porting static types to heap types, and implementing multi-phase init. All global variables in the_io module are static types:

• Modules/_io/bufferedio.c: PyBufferedIOBase_Type
• Modules/_io/bufferedio.c: PyBufferedRWPair_Type
• Modules/_io/bufferedio.c: PyBufferedRandom_Type
• Modules/_io/bufferedio.c: PyBufferedReader_Type
• Modules/_io/bufferedio.c: PyBufferedWriter_Type
• Modules/_io/bytesio.c: PyBytesIO_Type
• Modules/_io/bytesio.c: _PyBytesIOBuffer_Type
• Modules/_io/fileio.c: PyFileIO_Type
• Modules/_io/iobase.c: PyIOBase_Type
• Modules/_io/iobase.c: PyRawIOBase_Type
• Modules/_io/textio.c: PyIncrementalNewlineDecoder_Type
• Modules/_io/textio.c: PyTextIOBase_Type
• Modules/_io/textio.c: PyTextIOWrapper_Type
• Modules/_io/winconsoleio.c: PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type

Converting the static types to heap types involves applyingPEP-687 to_io.
Adapting multi-phase init involves applyingPEP-489 to_io.

Linked PRs

• gh-101819: Remove _PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type from the Windows DLL #101904
• gh-101819: Remove _testcapi dependencies on specific _io symbols #101918
• gh-101819: Isolate _io #101948
• gh-101819: Adapt _io types to heap types, batch 1 #101949
• gh-101819: Prepare to modernize the _io extension #104178
• gh-101819: Adapt _io.PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type to heap type #104197
• gh-101819: Remove unused 'locale_module' from _io state #104246
• gh-101819: Port _io.PyIncrementalNewlineDecoder_Type to heap type #104249
• gh-101819: Port _io.PyBytesIOBuffer_Type to heap type #104264
• gh-101819: Refactor _io in preparation for module isolation #104334
• gh-101819: Harden _io init #104352
• gh-101819: Clean up _io windows console io after gh-104197 #104354
• gh-101819: Adapt _io._BufferedIOBase_Type methods to Argument Clinic #104355
• gh-101819: Adapt _io._Buffered* methods to Argument Clinic #104367
• gh-101819: Refactor _io futher in preparation for module isolation #104369
• gh-101819: Explicitly disallow pickle protocols 0 and 1 in _io #104370
• gh-101819: Adapt _io.TextIOBase methods to Argument Clinic #104383
• gh-101819: Adapt _io.IOBase.seek and _io.IOBase.truncate to Argument Clinic #104384
• gh-101819: Prepare _io._IOBase for module state #104386
• gh-101819: Fix inverted debug preprocessor check in winconsoleio.c #104388
• gh-101819: Fix _io clinic input for unused base class method stubs #104418