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  r78826 | victor.stinner | 2010-03-10 23:30:19 +0100 (mer., 10 mars 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
  (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
  printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
  module.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
+  (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
+  printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
+  module.
+
 - Issue #7173: Generator finalization could invalidate sys.exc_info().
 
 - Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid