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 Library
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+- #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created
+  (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
+
 - #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered
   list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).