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  r84098 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-08-16 14:55:46 -0400 (Mon, 16 Aug 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #665761: functools.reduce() will no longer mask exceptions other
  than TypeError raised by the iterator argument.  Also added a test to
  check that zip() already behaves similarly.
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 Extension Modules
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+- Issue #665761: ``functools.reduce()`` will no longer mask exceptions
+  other than ``TypeError`` raised by the iterator argument.
+
 - Issue #9570: Use PEP 383 decoding in os.mknod and os.mkfifo.
 
 - Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order