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 Library
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+- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
+  as a filename.  Patch by Brian Brazil.
+
 - Issue #10160: Speed up operator.attrgetter.  Patch by Christos Georgiou.
 
 - logging: Added style option to basicConfig() to allow %, {} or $-formatting.