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  r87251 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-14 18:06:25 -0500 (Tue, 14 Dec 2010) | 4 lines

  #4236: avoid possible Fatal Error when import is called from __del__

  Patch by Simon Cross, crasher test code by Martin von Löwis.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
+  rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
+  error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
+
 - Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
   float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros.  -4.0 % 4.0 should be
   0.0, not -0.0.