#7909: the prefixes \\.\ and \\?\ indicate special Windows paths, do not try to manipulate them. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx for details.
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Library
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+- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
+ or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
+
- Issue #1286: Allow using fileinput.FileInput as a context manager.
- Add lfu_cache() and lru_cache() decorators to the functools module.