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+Several built-in and standard library types now ensure that their internal
+result tuples are always tracked by the :term:`garbage collector
+<garbage collection>`:
+
+- :meth:`collections.OrderedDict.items() <collections.OrderedDict>`
+
+- :meth:`dict.items`
+
+- :func:`enumerate`
+
+- :func:`functools.reduce`
+
+- :func:`itertools.combinations`
+
+- :func:`itertools.combinations_with_replacement`
+
+- :func:`itertools.permutations`
+
+- :func:`itertools.product`
+
+- :func:`itertools.zip_longest`
+
+- :func:`zip`
+
+Previously, they could have become untracked by a prior garbage collection.
+Patch by Brandt Bucher.