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+- Issue #19138: doctest's IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL now allows a match when
+  no exception detail exists (no colon following the exception's name, or
+  a colon does follow but no text follows the colon).
+
 - Issue #16231: Fixed pickle.Pickler to only fallback to its default pickling
   behaviour when Pickler.persistent_id returns None, but not for any other
   false values.  This allows false values other than None to be used as