Core and Builtins
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+ - Issue #29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate
+ form.
+
+- Issue #18896: Python function can now have more than 255 parameters.
+ collections.namedtuple() now supports tuples with more than 255 elements.
+
+- Issue #28596: The preferred encoding is UTF-8 on Android. Patch written by
+ Chi Hsuan Yen.
+
- Issue #26919: On Android, operating system data is now always encoded/decoded
to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to avoid inconsistencies with
os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.