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  r72054 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-04-27 23:53:26 +0200 (lun., 27 avril 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #1734234: Massively speedup `unicodedata.normalize()` when the
  string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
  Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
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+- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
+  string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
+  Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
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 - Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
   at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
   initialized before.