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  r74055 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2009-07-17 11:18:18 +0200 (Fr, 17 Jul 2009) | 55 lines

  Merged revisions 73995,74002,74005,74007-74008,74011,74019-74023 via svnmerge from
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    r74008 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-14 20:46:42 -0400 (Tue, 14 Jul 2009) | 1 line

    update year
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    r74011 | ezio.melotti | 2009-07-15 13:07:04 -0400 (Wed, 15 Jul 2009) | 1 line

    methods' names pep8ification
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    r74019 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-15 17:29:27 -0400 (Wed, 15 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

    #6076 Add a title to the IDLE Preferences window.
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    r74020 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-16 03:18:07 -0400 (Thu, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

    #5910: fix kqueue for calls with more than one event.
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    r74021 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-16 03:33:04 -0400 (Thu, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

    #6486: start with built in functions rather than "built in objects".
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    r74022 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-16 03:38:35 -0400 (Thu, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

    #6481: fix typo in os.system() replacement.
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    r74023 | jesse.noller | 2009-07-16 10:23:04 -0400 (Thu, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

    Issue 6433: multiprocessing.pool.map hangs on empty list
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3de1557..2b7fe80 100644
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@@ -950,6 +950,8 @@
 - Issue #6459: distutils.command.build_ext.get_export_symbols now uses the 
   "PyInit" prefix, rather than "init". 
 
+- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
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 - Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32. 
 
 - Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.