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@@ -355,6 +355,10 @@ Extension modules
Library
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+- gzip.py now handles files exceeding 2GB. Note that 4GB is still a
+ fundamental limitation of the underlying gzip file format (it only
+ has 32 bits to record the file size).
+
- xml.sax.saxutils.unescape has been added, to replace entity references
with their entity value.
@@ -365,7 +369,7 @@ Library
- Various configure methods of Tkinter have been stream-lined, so that
tag_configure, image_configure, window_configure now return a
- dictionary when invoked with no argument.
+ dictionary when invoked with no argument.
- Importing the readline module now no longer has the side effect of
calling setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). The initial "C" locale, or