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authorTerry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2010-11-11 23:22:19 (GMT)
committerTerry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2010-11-11 23:22:19 (GMT)
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#2986 Add autojunk parameter to SequenceMatcher to optionally disable 'popular == junk' heuristic.
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- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
+- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
+ can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
+ heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
+
- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
falling into recursion.