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 Library
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+- Issue #17572: Avoid chained exceptions while passing bad directives to
+  time.strptime().  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
 - Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
 
 - Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.