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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-01-04 21:29:23 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-01-04 21:29:23 (GMT)
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Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override the timestamp in the gzip stream.
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Library
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+- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
+ the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
+ The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
+ Jacques Frechet.
+
- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under