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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
+ PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
+ was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
+
- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),