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r85392 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-12 17:57:59 -0500 (Tue, 12 Oct 2010) | 1 line
prefer clearing global objects to obscure module.__dict__ bugs #10068
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
+ dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
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- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long