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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2013-12-27 16:43:42 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2013-12-27 16:43:42 (GMT)
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Mostly-null merge of #18116 backport (updated NEWS entry).
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do with byte strings.
- Issue #18116: getpass was always getting an error when testing /dev/tty,
- and thus was always falling back to stdin. It also leaked an open file
- when it did so. Both of these issues are now fixed.
+ and thus was always falling back to stdin, and would then raise an exception
+ if stdin could not be used (such as /dev/null). It also leaked an open file.
+ All of these issues are now fixed.
- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module. Patch by Valentina
Mukhamedzhanova.