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  r85982 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-10-30 18:19:14 +0200 (sam., 30 oct. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
  for append that isn't seekable.  Patch by Brian Brazil.
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+- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
+  for append that isn't seekable.  Patch by Brian Brazil.
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 - Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
 
 - Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file