#11700: proxy object close methods can now be called multiple times
This makes them work like the close provided by regular file objects. This
patch also backports the close-the-underlying-file code for _ProxyFile objects
that was introduced along with context manager support in the 3.x branch.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5fa4178..2e33e7f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
+ times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
+
- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
written by Ezio Melotti.