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  r85154 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-01 19:03:31 -0500 (Fri, 01 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  type.__abstractmethods__ should raise an AttributeError #10006
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  r85182 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-02 12:55:47 -0500 (Sat, 02 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  add a test and a note about metaclasses now being abcs
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.  As a
+  result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
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 - Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
   float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the
   expected 1.5.