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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2012-11-27 18:16:55 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2012-11-27 18:16:55 (GMT)
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Plug a leak in timemodule. The module dictionary is saved during
initialization. If the interpreter is shut down and reinitialized (embedded CPython), the old module dictionary was not dec-refed during the next import of the time extension module. Contributed by Torsten Marek of Google.
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@@ -620,6 +620,9 @@ Library
Extension Modules
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+- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
+ interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
+
- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
method doesn't require an argument again.