garbage collector still documented as optional

[gregball]

BPO	1091740
Nosy	@rhettinger

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[gregball]

Section 3.2 of the library reference, first paragraph, says
"The gc module is only available if the interpreter was
built with the optional cyclic garbage detector"

However according to Misc/NEWS, "Compiling out the
cyclic garbage collector is no longer an option" as of
Python 2.3 alpha 1.

[rhettinger]

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Fixed.

Thanks for the report.