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+- time.strptime() now properly escapes timezones and all other locale-specific
+  strings for regex-specific symbols.  Was breaking under Japanese Windows when
+  the timezone was specified as "Tokyo (standard time)".
+  Closes bug #1039270.
+
 - Updates for the email package:
   + All deprecated APIs that in email 2.x issued warnings have been removed:
     _encoder argument to the MIMEText constructor, Message.add_payload(),