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bpo-28254: Add a C-API for controlling the state of the garbage collector#25687

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bpo-28254: Add a C-API for controlling the state of the garbage collector#25687
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bpo-28254: Add a C-API for controlling the state of the garbage collector.
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bpo-28254: Improve markup and add a What's New entry.
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bpo-28254: Return the previous GC state from the Enable/Disable functions to make it easy for users to ('atomically') know whether they actually changed something and what state to go back to later…
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Update Modules/_testcapimodule.c
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bpo-28254: Formatting.
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bpo-28254: Move new functions to a better place (not cutting into the gc.collect() implementation).
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Remove an incorrect part of a comment: PyGC_Collect() actually does nothing if GC is disabled.
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bpo-28254: Add documentation for the PyGC_*() functions.
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bpo-28254: Add new PyGC_*() functions to the stable ABI list.
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bpo-28254: Apply suggestions from doc review.
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Add a word on how PyGC_Collect() and gc.collect() differ.
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Fix version marker.
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Fix version marker (II).
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