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  r70936 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 23:21:43 -0400 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 4 lines

  Fix issue 2522.  locale.format now checks that it is passed
  exactly one pattern, which avoids mysterious errors where it
  had seemed to fail to do localization.
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+- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
+  been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
+  that it was failing to do localization.
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 - Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
   Brandl.