Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default.
Use ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
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+- Issue #8047: Fix the xml.etree serializer to return bytes by default. Use
+ ``encoding="unicode"`` to generate a Unicode string.
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- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
behavior was wrong.