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 Library
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+- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
+
 - Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
 
 - Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions