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  r85392 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-12 17:57:59 -0500 (Tue, 12 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  prefer clearing global objects to obscure module.__dict__ bugs #10068
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 - Issue #83755:  Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
 
+- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
+  dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
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 - Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
   output with no type specifier failed to match the str output: