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authorNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2007-01-05 05:25:22 (GMT)
committerNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2007-01-05 05:25:22 (GMT)
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Prevent crash on shutdown which can occur if we are finalizing
and the module dict has been cleared already and some object raises a warning (like in a __del__). Will backport.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object
+ raised a warning.
+
- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
to avoid relying on atexit.