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authorR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-04-26 21:17:14 (GMT)
committerR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-04-26 21:17:14 (GMT)
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Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
Refactors format_string. Includes tests for the two problems noted in the issue, but as far as I can see there are no other tests that confirm that format_string conforms to normal % formatting rules.
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Library
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+- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
+ and mappings.
+
- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes