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  r85562 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-15 22:45:45 -0500 (Fri, 15 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  don't identify the toplevel namespace by name #9997
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 - Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.  As a
   result metaclasses can now be ABCs (see #9533).
 
+- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
+  resolution.
+
 - Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
   float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the
   expected 1.5.