#Issue 8540: Make Context._clamp attribute public in decimal module.
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+- Issue #8540: Decimal module: rename the Context._clamp attribute to
+ Context.clamp and make it public. This is useful in creating
+ contexts that correspond to the decimal interchange formats
+ specified in IEEE 754.
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- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
StreamWriter classes.