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 Library
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+- Issue 9840: Added a decorator to reprlib for wrapping __repr__ methods
+  to make them handle recursive calls within the same thread.
+
 - logging: Enhanced HTTPHandler with secure and credentials initializers.
 
 - Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X