Fixed multiple reinitialization of the Python interpreter. The small int list in longobject.c has caused a seg fault during the third finalization.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Fixed multiple reinitialization of the Python interpreter. The small int
+ list in longobject.c has caused a seg fault during the third finalization.
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- Issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raises SystemError
- Issue #1771: remove cmp parameter from sorted() and list.sort()