[Python-Dev] Bizarre new test failure

[Guido van Rossum]

> Me too.  It's lovely.  Check it in!  It could use some comments
> about *why* the clear function isn't clearing all the members.
> That's unusual enough for a clear function that it deserves some
> prose.

Will do.  But first I have to fix SF 551412 for the third time.  The
issues here made me look at that once more and realize that the real
cause of the problem was a bug in slot_tp_number -- it was being
called because on behalf of the second argument.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)