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r83918 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-08-10 00:38:19 +0200 (mar., 10 août 2010) | 5 lines
Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
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Library
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+- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
+ Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
+ timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
+
- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
behavior was wrong.