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r68661 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-17 17:40:17 +0100 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 5 lines
#3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
with other applications.
Reviewed by Martin, will backport to 2.6 and 3.0
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Library
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+- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
+ opened with other applications.
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- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable. They now
correctly return an empty iterator.