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 Library
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+- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the 
+  stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
+
 - Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
 
 - Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing