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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- PEP 393: flexible string representation.
+
 - Issue #13012: The 'keepends' parameter to str.splitlines may now be passed
   as a keyword argument:  "my_string.splitlines(keepends=True)".  The same
   change also applies to bytes.splitlines and bytearray.splitlines.