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@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ have been called before resurrection). At best (and this has been an
historically common bug), tp_clear empties an instance's __dict__, and
"impossible" AttributeErrors result. At worst, tp_clear leaves behind an
insane object at the C level, and segfaults result (historically, most
-often by setting a new-style class's mro pointer to NULL, after which
-attribute lookups performed by the class can segfault).
+often by setting a class's mro pointer to NULL, after which attribute
+lookups performed by the class can segfault).
OTOH, it's OK to run Python-level code that can't access unreachable
objects, and sometimes that's necessary. The chief example is the callback
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ isn't easy to stumble into by accident while Python is running, and, indeed,
it took quite a while to dream up failing test cases. Zope3 saw segfaults
during shutdown, during the second call of gc in Py_Finalize, after most
modules had been torn down. That creates many trash cycles (esp. those
-involving new-style classes), making the problem much more likely. Once you
+involving classes), making the problem much more likely. Once you
know what's required to provoke the problem, though, it's easy to create
tests that segfault before shutdown.