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  r67291 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-19 15:49:09 -0600 (Wed, 19 Nov 2008) | 5 lines

  make sure that bytearray methods return a new bytearray even if there is no change

  Fixes #4348
  Reviewed by Brett
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
+  the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
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 - Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
 
 - Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.