Issue #2396: backport the memoryview object.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
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 - Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
   when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.