#8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo()
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@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@
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+- Issue #8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
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 - Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
   if invoking flush() fails.