Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
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+- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
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 - Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
   now be unpickled with Python 2.5.