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+- Issue #2834: update the regular expression library to match the unicode
+ standards of py3k. In other words, mixing bytes and unicode strings
+ (be it as pattern, search string or replacement string) raises a TypeError.
+ Moreover, the re.UNICODE flag is enabled automatically for unicode patterns,
+ and can be disabled by specifying a new re.ASCII flag; as for bytes
+ patterns, ASCII matching is the only option and trying to specify re.UNICODE
+ for such patterns raises a ValueError.
+
- Issue #3300: make urllib.parse.[un]quote() default to UTF-8.
Code contributed by Matt Giuca. quote() now encodes the input
before quoting, unquote() decodes after unquoting. There are