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  r71860 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-24 19:41:22 -0500 (Fri, 24 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  fix a segfault when setting __class__ in __del__ #5283
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
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 - Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
   z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.