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  r82730 | r.david.murray | 2010-07-09 08:23:21 -0400 (Fri, 09 Jul 2010) | 4 lines

  7846: limit fnmatch pattern cache to _MAXCACHE=100 entries.

  Patch by Andrew Clegg.
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  r82731 | r.david.murray | 2010-07-09 09:14:03 -0400 (Fri, 09 Jul 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix sort order mistake in Misc/ACKS.
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 Library
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+- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
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 - Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
   RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module.  This was
   due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.