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  r76117 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-05 14:42:29 +0100 (jeu., 05 nov. 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
  which are part of a reference cycle.
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+- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
+  which are part of a reference cycle.
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 - Issue #7249: Methods of io.BytesIO now allow `long` as well as `int`
   arguments.