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  r77821 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000 (Fri, 29 Jan 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #7788: Fix a crash produced by deleting a list slice with huge
  step value.  Patch by Marcin Bachry.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
+  slice with very large step value.
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 - Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
   tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
   structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,