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r70523 | lars.gustaebel | 2009-03-22 21:09:33 +0100 (Sun, 22 Mar 2009) | 5 lines
Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
partial bzip2 compressed data.
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Library
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+- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
+ forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
+ with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
+ partial bzip2 compressed data.
+
- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
even if an exception occurs.