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  r74279 | mark.dickinson | 2009-08-02 11:14:23 +0100 (Sun, 02 Aug 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #6595: Allow Decimal constructor to accept non-European decimal digits, as recommended by the specification.
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+- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
+  decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard.  Previously
+  it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
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 - Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
   unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
   descriptor errors