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annotate Mac/ReadMe @ 25838:8540887bcec6 2.2
Backport of 2.183:
Fix memory leak in add_subclass() found by NealN with valgrind.
| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> |
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| date | Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:42:21 +0000 |
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