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  r78641 | victor.stinner | 2010-03-04 01:10:12 +0100 (jeu., 04 mars 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
  reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
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+- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
+  reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
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 - Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
   with Tcl/Tk-8.5.