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Issue 7893 and Issue 7588
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unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
+- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
+ argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
+ class to be used without having to subclass.
+
+- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
+ name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
+
- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes
recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,