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  r75561 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-20 14:33:03 +0100 (Tue, 20 Oct 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal should return True for all nonzero
  finite non-subnormal values, even those with exponent > Emax.
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+- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
+  larger than emax.
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 - Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
   several threads at once.