writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
Library
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+ - Issue #21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing
+ writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
+
+- Issue #23622: Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of ``'\'``
+ and ASCII letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be forbidden in
+ Python 3.6.
+
- Issue #23671: string.Template now allows to specify the "self" parameter as
keyword argument. string.Formatter now allows to specify the "self" and
the "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments.