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  r83117 | victor.stinner | 2010-07-24 03:07:52 +0200 (sam., 24 juil. 2010) | 11 lines

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    r83116 | victor.stinner | 2010-07-24 02:49:20 +0200 (sam., 24 juil. 2010) | 4 lines

    Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
    doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
    options).
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 Library
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+- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
+  doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
+  options).
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 - Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
 
 - Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an