#12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
+ Both :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` and '\N{...}' now resolve aliases,
+ and :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` resolves named sequences too.
+
- Issue #12170: The count(), find(), rfind(), index() and rindex() methods
of bytes and bytearray objects now accept an integer between 0 and 255
as their first argument. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.