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Windows
+- os.waitpid() is now implemented for Windows, and can be used to block
+ until a specified process exits. This is similar to, but not exactly
+ the same as, os.waitpid() on POSIX systems. If you're waiting for
+ a specific process whose pid was obtained from one of the spawn()
+ functions, the same Python os.waitpid() code works across platforms.
+ See the docs for details.
+
- New tempfile.TemporaryFile implementation for Windows: this doesn't
need a TemproraryFileWrapper wrapper anymore, and should be immune
to a nasty problem: before 2.3, if you got a temp file on Windows, it