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  r75662 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-24 15:38:27 +0200 (Sat, 24 Oct 2009) | 9 lines

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    r75659 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-24 15:29:44 +0200 (Sat, 24 Oct 2009) | 1 line

    #7066 - Fixed distutils.archive_util.make_archive behavior so it restores the cwd
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 Library
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+- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
+  raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
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 - Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the 
   behavior is similar when used with -O.