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  r74727 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-08 18:04:22 -0500 (Tue, 08 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6865 fix ref counting in initialization of pwd module
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+- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
+  module.
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 - Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
   exception.