New function sys.getcheckinterval(), to complement setcheckinterval().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2953dc3..b793a73 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
Core and builtins
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+- The new function sys.getcheckinterval() returns the last value set
+ by sys.setcheckinterval().
+
- The Windows implementation of PyThread_start_new_thread() never
checked error returns from Windows functions correctly. As a result,
it could claim to start a new thread even when the Microsoft