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  r88337 | brett.cannon | 2011-02-04 12:24:02 -0800 (Fri, 04 Feb 2011) | 5 lines

  There was a possibility that the initialization of _sqlite, when it failed,
  would lead to a decref of a NULL.

  Fixes issue #11110.
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+- Issue #11110: Fix _sqlite to not deref a NULL when module creation fails.
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 - Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
   with large config files.