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  r59240 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2007-11-30 21:37:22 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add a NEWS entry for r59231
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  r59241 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2007-11-30 21:51:40 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 5 lines

  Issue #1521: on 64bit platforms, str.decode fails on very long strings.
  The t# and w# formats were not correctly handled.

  Will backport.
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  r59242 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-30 22:11:28 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix for feature request #1528 Add os.fchmod
  Georg Brandl has added fchmod() and fchown(). I've contributed lchown but I'm not able to test it on Linux. However it should be available on Mac and some other flavors of Unix.
  I've made a quick test of fchmod() and fchown() on my system. They are working as expected.
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