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 Library
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+- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
+  symlinks on POSIX platforms.
+
 - Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
 
 - Issue #7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from