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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #19619: str.encode, bytes.decode and bytearray.decode now use an
+ internal API to throw LookupError for known non-text encodings, rather
+ than attempting the encoding or decoding operation and then throwing a
+ TypeError for an unexpected output type. (The latter mechanism remains
+ in place for third party non-text encodings)
+
- Issue #20588: Make Python-ast.c C89 compliant.
- Issue #20437: Fixed 21 potential bugs when deleting objects references.