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  r72045 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-04-27 22:50:20 +0200 (lun., 27 avril 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
  at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
  initialized before.
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+- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
+  at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
+  initialized before.
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 - Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
 
 - Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.