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- Patch #1574068: fix urllib/urllib2 to not insert line breaks when
HTTP authentication data was very long.
+- Patch #1617413: fix urllib's support for HTTP Basic authentication via HTTPS
+ (patch by Dug Song).
+
- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.