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  r53556 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-25 19:34:14 +0100 (Do, 25 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix for #1643874: When calling SysAllocString, create a PyCObject
  which will eventually call SysFreeString to free the BSTR resource.
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 Library
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+- Patch #1643874: memory leak in ctypes fixed.
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 - Bug #1598181: Avoid O(N**2) bottleneck in subprocess communicate(). 
 
 - Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.