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 Library
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+- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
+  even if an exception occurs.
+
 - Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module.  This allows
   OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.