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 Library
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+- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
+  with 1, as in other lines.
+
 - Issue #7842: backported fix for py_compile.compile() syntax error handling.
 
 - Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when