[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.337.2.4.2.71,1.337.2.4.2.72

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      Tag: release22-maint
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Fixed the gc-vs-__del__ bugs for new-style classes.  That's it for this one.


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+ - Some horridly obscure problems were fixed involving interaction
+   between garbage collection and classes with "ambitious" getattr hooks.
+   If a class instance didn't have a __del__ method, but did have a
+   __getattr__ hook, and the instance became reachable only from an
+   unreachable cycle, and the hook resurrected or deleted unreachable
+   objects when asked to resolve "__del__", anything up to a segfault
+   could happen.  That's been repaired.
+ 
  - Skip locale test on Mac OS X.