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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
So maybe we should re-examine the patches and accept the bits that clean up init/finalization and leave out any ABI-related changes.

This is precisely what I suggested two years ago.

http://bugs.python.org/issue15390#msg170249

I am not against ABI-related changes in principle, but I think these changes should be carefully considered on a case by case basis and not applied wholesale.