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 Python News
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 Library
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+- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler.
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 - Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
   (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
   work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and