Issue 2986: Add autojunk paramater to SequenceMatcher to turn off heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy, Eli Bendersky, and Simon Cross
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Library
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+- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
+ can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
+ heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky.
+
- Issue #9846: zipfile is now correctly closing underlying file objects.
- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 6.0.