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Features
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- Explicitly use ``encoding="locale"`` for ``.pth`` files whenever possible,
to reduce ``EncodingWarnings``.
This avoid errors with UTF-8 (see discussion in python/cpython77102). (4265)
Bugfixes
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- Clarify some `pkg_resources` methods return `bytes`, not `str`. Also return an empty `bytes` in ``EmptyProvider._get`` -- by :user:`Avasam` (4243)
- Return an empty `list` by default in ``pkg_resources.ResourceManager.cleanup_resources`` -- by :user:`Avasam` (4244)
- Made ``pkg_resoursces.NullProvider``'s ``has_metadata`` and ``metadata_isdir`` methods return actual booleans like all other Providers. -- by :user:`Avasam` (4254)
Misc
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- 4237, 4238, 4241, 4260, 4261, 4263