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+- Issue #18801: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs to correctly classify
+  object.__new__ and object.__init__.
+
 - Fixed cmath.isinf's name in its argument parsing code.
 
 - Issue #20311, #20452: poll and epoll now round the timeout away from zero,