Speed up with statements by storing the __exit__ method on the stack instead of in a temp variable (bumps the magic number for pyc files)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Core and builtins
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+- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit method
+  on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by Jeffrey Yaskin)
+
 - Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions could give
   bogus error messages.