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  r79294 | r.david.murray | 2010-03-22 11:55:09 -0400 (Mon, 22 Mar 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
  when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.  Patch by
  Brian Curtin.
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+- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
+  when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
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 - Issue #3890: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
 
 - Issue #4282: Fix the main function of the profile module for a non-ASCII