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  r72178 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-05-01 22:55:35 +0200 (ven., 01 mai 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #3002: `shutil.copyfile()` and `shutil.copytree()` now raise an
  error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
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 Library
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+- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
+  error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
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 - Issue #5857: tokenize.tokenize() now returns named tuples.
 
 - Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu