- pythunrun.c, Py_Finalize(): move the call to _Py_PrintReferences()

  even farther down, to just before the call to
  _PyObject_DebugMallocStats().  This required the following changes:

- pystate.c, PyThreadState_GetDict(): changed not to raise an
  exception or issue a fatal error when no current thread state is
  available, but simply return NULL without raising an exception
  (ever).

- object.c, Py_ReprEnter(): when PyThreadState_GetDict() returns NULL,
  don't raise an exception but return 0.  This means that when
  printing a container that's recursive, printing will go on and on
  and on.  But that shouldn't happen in the case we care about (see
  first bullet).

- Updated Misc/NEWS and Doc/api/init.tex to reflect changes to
  PyThreadState_GetDict() definition.

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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4f24edc..70bc17c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ Build
 C API
 -----
 
+- PyThreadState_GetDict() was changed not to raise an exception or
+  issue a fatal error when no current thread state is available.  This
+  makes it possible to print dictionaries when no thread is active.
+
 - LONG_LONG was renamed to PY_LONG_LONG.
 
 - Added PyObject_SelfIter() to fill the tp_iter slot for the