[issue25135] Deques to adopt the standard clearing procedure for mutable objects

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

> I'm not sure that you understand what you are trying to do.

The goal is to avoid possible re-entrancy both now and in the future.  Since PyMem_RawMalloc is thread-safe and doesn't require the GIL to be held, it is guaranteed that there won't be a callback into regular Python that could mutate any of the data structures.

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