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 Library
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+- Issue #20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python (in
+  unicode strings only).  Improved error handling in variables-related commands.
+
 - Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
   translation settings.