#8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
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Simon Mathieu
Laura Matson
Graham Matthews
+Martin Matusiak
Dieter Maurer
Daniel May
Madison May
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Library
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+- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
+ Patch by Martin Matusiak.
+
- Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
limiting the call to readline(). Original patch by Michał
Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.