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+- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
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 - Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
 
 - Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances.  Patch by