Not setting the numeric locale caused trouble for extensions that used
third-party C libraries, however, because they wouldn't have the
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correct locale set. The motivating example was GTK+, whose user
interface widgets weren't displaying numbers in the current locale.
\item The \module{poplib} module now supports POP over SSL.
\item The \module{profile} module can now profile C extension functions.
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(Contributed by Nick Bastin.)
\item The \module{random} module has a new method called