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  r76240 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-13 17:29:04 +0100 (ven., 13 nov. 2009) | 6 lines

  Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
  the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
  the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
  to empty global variables.
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 Tests
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+- Issue #6551: test_zipimport could import and then destroy some modules of
+  the encodings package, which would make other tests fail further down
+  the road because the internally cached encoders and decoders would point
+  to empty global variables.
+
 - Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
 
 - Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization