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  r75958 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-30 18:07:08 +0100 (ven., 30 oct. 2009) | 7 lines

  Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
  leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
  reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
  still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
  :func:hread._count().
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