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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-08-09 22:38:19 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-08-09 22:38:19 (GMT)
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Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
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Library
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+- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
+ Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
+ timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
+
- Issue #9452: Add read_file, read_string, and read_dict to the configparser
API; new source attribute to exceptions.