From fac3dd7f390d372736e05974cc5c3ef1a3768fbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Smith <39445562+smithdc1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:36:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Refs #33173 -- Fixed MailTests.test_backend_arg() on Windows
 and Python 3.11+.

---
 django/utils/version.py | 1 +
 tests/mail/tests.py     | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/django/utils/version.py b/django/utils/version.py
index 1e20a86563..5b6a435b51 100644
--- a/django/utils/version.py
+++ b/django/utils/version.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ PY37 = sys.version_info >= (3, 7)
 PY38 = sys.version_info >= (3, 8)
 PY39 = sys.version_info >= (3, 9)
 PY310 = sys.version_info >= (3, 10)
+PY311 = sys.version_info >= (3, 11)
 
 
 def get_version(version=None):
diff --git a/tests/mail/tests.py b/tests/mail/tests.py
index 51e26cc6be..183a0c0ab1 100644
--- a/tests/mail/tests.py
+++ b/tests/mail/tests.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ from django.core.mail.message import BadHeaderError, sanitize_address
 from django.test import SimpleTestCase, override_settings
 from django.test.utils import requires_tz_support
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy
+from django.utils.version import PY311
 
 try:
     from aiosmtpd.controller import Controller
@@ -790,7 +791,7 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
                 filebased.EmailBackend,
             )
 
-        if sys.platform == "win32":
+        if sys.platform == "win32" and not PY311:
             msg = (
                 "_getfullpathname: path should be string, bytes or os.PathLike, not "
                 "object"