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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2012-12-08 20:18:50 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2012-12-08 20:18:50 (GMT)
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Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though its refcount had dropped to zero.
Thanks to Eugene Toder for diagnosing and reporting the issue.
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
+ chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
+ its refcount had dropped to zero.
+
- Issue #16495: Remove extraneous NULL encoding check from bytes_decode().
- Issue #16619: Create NameConstant AST class to represent None, True, and False