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 Library
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+- Issue #17979: Fixed the re module in build with --disable-unicode.
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 - Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
  .characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods.  Original patch by Sebastian
   Ortiz Vasquez.