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  r76360 | tarek.ziade | 2009-11-18 10:32:34 +0100 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 9 lines

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    r76358 | tarek.ziade | 2009-11-18 09:46:56 +0100 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 1 line

    #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler now uses a key that exists on any fresh windows install
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+- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
+  Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
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 - Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
 
 - Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish