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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- Limit the nested depth of a tuple for the second argument to isinstance()
+ and issubclass() to the recursion limit of the interpreter.
+ Fixes bug #858016 .
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- Optimized dict iterators, creating separate types for each
and having them reveal their length. Also optimized the
methods: keys(), values(), and items().