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  r76381 | lars.gustaebel | 2009-11-18 21:24:54 +0100 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile
  constructor in case of an error.
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+- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
+  case of an error.
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 - Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
 
 - Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish