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 Tests
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+- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module.  Patch Michael Henry.
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 - Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
 
 - Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia