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r85455 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 08:59:45 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#1710703: write zipfile structures also in the case of closing a new, but empty, archive.
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- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
+- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
+ created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
+ BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
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- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.