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 Library
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+- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable.  Patch by Filip
+  Gruszczyński.
+
 - Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.
 
 - Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener