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Expand Up @@ -1036,6 +1036,11 @@ Porting to Python 3.12
functions that set the error indicator now normalize the exception
before storing it. (Contributed by Mark Shannon in :gh:`101578`.)

* ``_Py_RefTotal`` is no longer authoritative and only kept around
for ABI compabitility. Note that it is an internal global and only
available on debug builds. If you happen to be using it then you'll
need to start using ``_Py_GetGlobalRefTotal()``.

Deprecated
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