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 Library
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+- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
+  upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
+  it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
+
 - Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
   the reload() built-in has been removed.