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  r75570 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-20 23:29:37 +0200 (mar., 20 oct. 2009) | 6 lines

  Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
  fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
  interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
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diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
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@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@
 Tim O'Malley
 Pascal Oberndoerfer
 Jeffrey Ollie
+Adam Olsen
 Grant Olson
 Piet van Oostrum
 Jason Orendorff
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
+  fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
+  interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
+
 - Issue #7147: Remove support for compiling Python without complex number
   support.