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authorSteve Purcell <steve@pythonconsulting.com>2001-09-06 16:05:17 (GMT)
committerSteve Purcell <steve@pythonconsulting.com>2001-09-06 16:05:17 (GMT)
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Added note of unittest.py changes that fixed bug 451309
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- In restricted execution mode (using the rexec module), unmarshalling
code objects is no longer allowed. This plugs a security hole.
+- unittest.TestResult instances no longer store references to tracebacks
+ generated by test failures. This prevents unexpected dangling references
+ to objects that should be garbage collected between tests.
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