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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-09-07 22:06:17 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-09-07 22:06:17 (GMT)
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Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which
is friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally visible since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used instead.
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Library
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+- Issue #9707: Rewritten reference implementation of threading.local which
+ is friendlier towards reference cycles. This change is not normally
+ visible since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used
+ instead.
+
- Issue #6394: os.getppid() is now supported on Windows. Note that it will
still return the id of the parent process after it has exited. This process
id may even have been reused by another unrelated process.