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  r83703 | giampaolo.rodola | 2010-08-04 10:35:25 +0200 (mer, 04 ago 2010) | 1 line

  fix issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly (patch by Alexander Shigin)
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 Peter Åstrand
 Jesse Noller
 Fredrik Håård
+Alexander Shigin
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 Library
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+- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
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 - Issue #8447: Make distutils.sysconfig follow symlinks in the path to
   the interpreter executable.  This fixes a failure of test_httpservers
   on OS X.