Issue #12442: add shutil.disk_usage()
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+- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
+  disk space statistics.
+
 - Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
   UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
   also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode