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 Library
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+- Bug #1001053.  wave.open() now accepts unicode filenames.
+
 - gzip.GzipFile has a new fileno() method, to retrieve the handle of the
   underlying file object (provided it has a fileno() method).  This is
   needed if you want to use os.fsync() on a GzipFile.