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 Library
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+- urllib2 now recognizes Basic authentication even if other authentication
+  schemes are offered.
+
 - Bug #1001053.  wave.open() now accepts unicode filenames.
 
 - gzip.GzipFile has a new fileno() method, to retrieve the handle of the