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| author | Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> | 2009-03-22 20:48:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> | 2009-03-22 20:48:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 7623294cb76b23d63df2858df71072721bf409cc (patch) | |
| tree | 1795e28745da5abb35df75897f63894bbe325f99 /Misc | |
| parent | f73bf859425040d2d27499ae89bc229fb5496b00 (diff) | |
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Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
partial bzip2 compressed data.
(backported from r70523)
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@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ Python News (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) +What's New in Python 2.5.5? +=========================== + +*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX* + +Library +------- + +- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop + forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used + with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or + partial bzip2 compressed data. + + What's New in Python 2.5.4? =========================== |