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 Library
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+- Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
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 - Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
 
 - Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the