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Library
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+- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
+ threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
+ file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
+ an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
+
- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.