news entry matching r74655
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Library
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+- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
+ repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
+ HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
+ when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
+
- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
as documented.