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 Library
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+- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
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 - Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
 
 - Issue 10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.