text: .. bpo: 2236
  .. date: 8293
  .. nonce: 1Mj4VJ
  .. release date: 2010-11-27
  .. section: Library
  
  distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
  
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  .. bpo: 0
  .. date: 8292
  .. nonce: NFeWRc
  .. section: Library
  
  Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 10323
  .. date: 8291
  .. nonce: rFKI3X
  .. section: Library
  
  itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of inputs before
  stopping.  Formerly, the final state of the underlying iterator was
  undefined.
  
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  .. bpo: 10565
  .. date: 8290
  .. nonce: g3L9da
  .. section: Library
  
  The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
  
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  .. bpo: 10092
  .. date: 8289
  .. nonce: -B7ynY
  .. section: Library
  
  Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 10459
  .. date: 8288
  .. nonce: G0RFoD
  .. section: Library
  
  Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 6098
  .. date: 8287
  .. nonce: CKisab
  .. section: Library
  
  Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
  
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  .. bpo: 10561
  .. date: 8286
  .. nonce: gxs6bQ
  .. section: Library
  
  In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
  
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  .. bpo: 5762
  .. date: 8285
  .. nonce: ADvGzb
  .. section: Library
  
  Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty XML namespace
  attribute is encountered.
  
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  .. bpo: 1710703
  .. date: 8284
  .. nonce: NAAh-d
  .. section: Library
  
  Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is created in modes
  'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise BadZipfile
  (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
  
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  .. bpo: 4493
  .. date: 8283
  .. nonce: idMjMG
  .. section: Library
  
  urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not start with '/.
  Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
  
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  .. bpo: 10407
  .. date: 8282
  .. nonce: f8LrF_
  .. section: Library
  
  Fix one NameError in distutils.
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 10198
  .. date: 8281
  .. nonce: 7ruhdY
  .. section: Library
  
  fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes() is called
  without data.
  
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  .. bpo: 10467
  .. date: 8280
  .. nonce: uNWGiY
  .. section: Library
  
  Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the end of the
  file.
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 5111
  .. date: 8279
  .. nonce: XegYFR
  .. section: Library
  
  IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
  
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  .. bpo: 6378
  .. date: 8278
  .. nonce: ovcYOt
  .. section: IDLE
  
  idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than the system
  default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 0
  .. date: 8277
  .. nonce: 64ssfS
  .. section: Build
  
  Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 1303434
  .. date: 8276
  .. nonce: AVO6EG
  .. section: Build
  
  Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 9424
  .. date: 8275
  .. nonce: BO5Jfa
  .. section: Tests
  
  Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
  
  ..
  
  .. bpo: 10299
  .. date: 8274
  .. nonce: ERtbPa
  .. section: Documentation
  
  List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
  