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  r68560 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-13 00:36:55 +0100 (mar., 13 janv. 2009) | 6 lines

  #3720: Interpreter crashes when an evil iterator removes its own next function.

  Now the slot is filled with a function that always raises.

  Will not backport: extensions compiled with 2.6.x would not run on 2.6.0.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
+  __next__ method.
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 - Issue #4910: Builtin int() function and PyNumber_Long/PyNumber_Int API
   function no longer attempt to call the __long__ slot to convert an object
   to an integer.  Only the __int__ and __trunc__ slots are examined.