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 Library
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+- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
+  falling into recursion.
+
 - Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
   character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.