Issue 4998: __slots__ on Fractions was useless.
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Library
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+- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
+ which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
+ numbers heirarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
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- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
it is possible to segfault the interpreter.