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  r73436 | tarek.ziade | 2009-06-16 01:30:13 +0200 (Tue, 16 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #6286: distutils upload command now uses urllib2
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+- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
+  httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
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 - Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
 
 - Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.