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  r70965 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 11:03:59 -0700 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 5 lines

  _warnings was importing itself to get an attribute. That's bad if warnings gets
  called in a thread that was spawned by an import itself.

  Last part to close #1665206.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
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 - Fix a segfault when running test_exceptions with coverage, caused by
   insufficient checks in accessors of Exception.__context__.