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Library
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+- Encoding name normalization was generalized to not only
+ replace hyphens with underscores, but also all other non-alphanumeric
+ characters (with the exception of the dot which is used for Python
+ package names during lookup). The aliases.py mapping was updated
+ to the new standard.
+
- mimetypes has two new functions: guess_all_extensions() which
returns a list of all known extensions for a mime type, and
add_type() which adds one mapping between a mime type and