Issue 9873: the URL parsing functions now accept ASCII encoded byte sequences in addition to character strings
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Library
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+- Issue #9873: The URL parsing functions in urllib.parse now accept
+ ASCII byte sequences as input in addition to character strings.
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- Issue #10586: The statistics API for the new functools.lru_cache has
been changed to a single cache_info() method returning a named tuple.