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  r83393 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 10:35:29 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #1690103: fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
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  r83396 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 10:52:32 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #4810: document "--" option separator in timeit help.
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  r83398 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 11:06:34 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8826: the "expires" attribute value is a date string with spaces, but apparently not all user-agents put it in quotes.  Handle that as a special case.
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  r83405 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 16:38:17 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #4943: do not try to include drive letters (and colons) when looking for a probably module name.
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  r83408 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 17:30:56 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #5551: symbolic links never can be mount points.  Fixes the fix for #1713.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cookie.py b/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
index 6523b9b..0e74ccf 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
@@ -62,6 +62,16 @@
         </script>
         """)
 
+        # loading 'expires'
+        C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
+        C.load('Customer="W"; expires=Wed, 01-Jan-2010 00:00:00 GMT')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['expires'],
+                         'Wed, 01-Jan-2010 00:00:00 GMT')
+        C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
+        C.load('Customer="W"; expires=Wed, 01-Jan-98 00:00:00 GMT')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['expires'],
+                         'Wed, 01-Jan-98 00:00:00 GMT')
+
     def test_quoted_meta(self):
         # Try cookie with quoted meta-data
         C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()