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  r77497 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-14 17:27:09 +0100 (jeu., 14 janv. 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the
  binascii module.  Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some
  additional tests.
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