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  r76172 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-09 17:00:11 +0100 (lun., 09 nov. 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
  than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
  `thread.start_new_thread()`.
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 Library
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+- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
+  than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
+  `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
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 - Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
   write new bytecode when it was made read-only.