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diff --git a/Lib/wsgiref/headers.py b/Lib/wsgiref/headers.py
index d316d302ace..cc01f5f3293 100644
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diff --git a/Lib/wsgiref/simple_server.py b/Lib/wsgiref/simple_server.py
index da14144ad79..231dc572f62 100644
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diff --git a/Lib/wsgiref/util.py b/Lib/wsgiref/util.py
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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+- Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
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 - Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories
   to be ignored only to the first file.  Noted by Bogdan Opanchuk.