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  r82828 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-07-11 18:06:06 -0500 (Sun, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  allow byte literals
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 Library
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+- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
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 - Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
   treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.