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  r68813 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-01-20 20:34:19 +0000 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue 4998:  __slots__ on Fractions was useless.
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  r69546 | mark.dickinson | 2009-02-12 17:55:42 +0000 (Thu, 12 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Typo fix.
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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 hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
+
 - Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
   function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).