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  r78097 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-02-07 21:18:02 +0100 (Sun, 07 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue 6003: ZipFile.writestr "compression_type" argument
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+- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
+  specify the compression type.
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 - Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
   specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
   Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address