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r76146 | brett.cannon | 2009-11-07 15:55:05 -0800 (Sat, 07 Nov 2009) | 6 lines
When trying to write new bytecode, importlib was not catching the IOError
thrown if the file happened to be read-only to keep the failure silent.
Fixes issue #7187. Thanks, Dave Malcolm for the report and analysis of the
problem.
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Library
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+- Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
+ write new bytecode when it was made read-only.
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- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
which are part of a reference cycle.