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(Contributed by Alberto Bertogli.)
.. Patch #1646
+
+* The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer` module now support
+ calling a :meth:`handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity
+ specified by the server's :attr:`timeout` attribute. (Contributed
+ by Michael Pomraning.)
+
+ .. Patch #742598
* A new variable in the :mod:`sys` module,
:attr:`float_info`, is an object