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  r83370 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:51:48 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 5 lines

  #8198: the Helper class should not save the stdin and stdout objects
  at import time, rather by default use the current streams like the
  other APIs that output help.
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  r83372 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 00:05:54 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #4007: remove *.a and *.so.X.Y files in "make clean".
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  r83373 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 00:11:11 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #5147: revert accidental indentation of header constant for MozillaCookieJar.
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  r83374 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 00:32:52 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #5146: handle UID THREAD command correctly.
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  r83384 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 08:32:55 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Build properties using lambdas.  This makes test_pyclbr pass again, because it does not think that input and output are methods anymore.
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 Library
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+- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
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+- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
+  http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
+
+- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
+  when sys.stdout is reassigned.
+
 - Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
 
 - Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.