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  r77791 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-26 20:25:58 -0600 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 9 lines

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    r77789 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-26 20:16:42 -0600 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    raise a clear TypeError when trying to register a non-class
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 Library
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+- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
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 - Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().
 
 - Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when