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  r60364 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 19:09:48 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Update the comment and remove the close.  If we close we can't flush anymore.
  We might still need to close after the for loop if flushing 6! times still
  doesn't cause the signal/exception.
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  r60365 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-27 19:14:43 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove effectless expression statement.
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  r60367 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 19:19:04 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Try to handle socket.errors properly in is_unavailable
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  r60370 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-27 20:01:45 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Change isbasestring function as discussed on the cvs list a while ago
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  r60372 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 21:03:13 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  socket.error doesn't have a headers attribute like ProtocolError.
  Handle that situation where we catch socket.errors.
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  r60375 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-27 21:25:12 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Add refcounting extension to build config.
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  r60377 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-28 00:08:46 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 6 lines

  Moved Rational._binary_float_to_ratio() to float.as_integer_ratio() because
  it's useful outside of rational numbers.

  This is my first C code that had to do anything significant. Please be more
  careful when looking over it.
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  r60378 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-28 00:34:59 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Added clear cache methods to clear the internal type lookup cache for ref leak test runs.
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diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 499f328..e536f0a 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -730,6 +730,17 @@ a 11-tuple where the entries in the tuple are counts of:\n\
 10. Number of stack pops performed by call_function()"
 );
 
+static PyObject *
+sys_cleartypecache(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
+{
+	PyType_ClearCache();
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(cleartypecache_doc,
+"_cleartypecache() -> None\n\
+Clear the internal type lookup cache.");
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif
@@ -752,6 +763,8 @@ static PyMethodDef sys_methods[] = {
 	/* Might as well keep this in alphabetic order */
 	{"callstats", (PyCFunction)PyEval_GetCallStats, METH_NOARGS,
 	 callstats_doc},
+	{"_cleartypecache", sys_cleartypecache, METH_NOARGS,
+	 cleartypecache_doc},
 	{"_current_frames", sys_current_frames, METH_NOARGS,
 	 current_frames_doc},
 	{"displayhook",	sys_displayhook, METH_O, displayhook_doc},