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 Library
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+- Issue #4953: cgi.FieldStorage and cgi.parse() parse the request as bytes, not
+  as unicode, and accept binary files. Add encoding and errors attributes to
+  cgi.FieldStorage.
+
 - Add encoding and errors arguments to urllib.parse_qs() and urllib.parse_qsl()
 
 - Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library.