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  r86981 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-12-03 19:41:39 +0100 (ven., 03 déc. 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
  way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
  current process.
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  r86984 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-12-03 20:14:17 +0100 (ven., 03 déc. 2010) | 3 lines

  Add an "advanced topics" section to the io doc.
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 Library
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+- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
+  way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
+  current process.
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 - Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.