Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from type.__new__() method.
__dict__ and __weakref__ are removed from the slots tuple earlier
in the code, in the loop that mangles slot names. Will backport.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4ac6849..8d93d01 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
Core and builtins
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+- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method.
+
- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized
forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a
ValueError.