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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2013-07-10 21:02:24 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2013-07-10 21:02:24 (GMT)
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#18116: getpass no longer always falls back to stdin.
Also fixes a resource warning that occurred when the fallback is taken. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. (We couldn't figure out how to write tests for this.)
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Library
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+- Issue #18116: getpass was always getting an error when testing /dev/tty,
+ and thus was always falling back to stdin. It also leaked an open file
+ when it did so. Both of these issues are now fixed.
+
- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module. Patch by Valentina
Mukhamedzhanova.