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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2017-06-15 22:18:15 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-06-15 22:18:15 (GMT)
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bpo-23890: Fix ref cycle in TestCase.assertRaises (#858)
unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected. (cherry picked from commit bbd3cf8f1ef1e91a8d6dac6411e18b4b9084abf5)
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@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference
+ cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected.
+
- bpo-30149: inspect.signature() now supports callables with
variable-argument parameters wrapped with partialmethod.
Patch by Dong-hee Na.