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  r76661 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-03 19:09:14 -0500 (Thu, 03 Dec 2009) | 11 lines

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    r76659 | r.david.murray | 2009-12-03 18:57:59 -0500 (Thu, 03 Dec 2009) | 4 lines

    Issue 7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
    file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
    user running the tests.
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 Tests
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+- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a 
+  file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
+  user running the tests.
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 - Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
   catch the case of an option with no handler.