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  r76910 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-12-20 12:40:31 +0530 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 10 lines

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    r76908 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-12-20 11:35:13 +0530 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 4 lines

    Fix for issue 7291 - urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth
    Refactored HTTPHandler tests and added testcase for proxy authorization.
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 Library
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+- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth.  Patch by
+  Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
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 - Issue #4757: `zlib.compress` and other methods in the zlib module now
   raise a TypeError when given an `str` object (rather than a `bytes`-like
   object).  Patch by Victor Stinner and Florent Xicluna.