Issue 10242. Switching unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual to use a collections.Counter under the hood.
This fixes bugs when comparing collections of items like sets that can be sorted without raising an exception but where sorting has no meaning.
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+- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumgptions
+  about input.
+
 - Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
 
 - Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,