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authorChris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>2009-09-04 16:51:16 (GMT)
committerChris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>2009-09-04 16:51:16 (GMT)
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Fixes issue #6838: use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly concatenating strings.
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Library
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+- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
+ repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
+ HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
+ when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
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- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.