(Merge 3.1) Issue #9756: credit the author, Andreas Stührk (Trundle)

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@@@ -13,16 -13,8 +13,16 @@@ Core and Builtin
  - Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
    the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
    Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
-   str type).
+   str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
  
 +- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
 +  subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
 +  the ISO-8859-15 codec.
 +
 +- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
 +  APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5.  Patch
 +  by Charles-François Natali.
 +
  - Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
    accepted too.