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authorAmaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>2009-07-23 19:26:02 (GMT)
committerAmaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>2009-07-23 19:26:02 (GMT)
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#6553: crash in cPickle.load(), when given a StringIO with incomplete data.
Will backport to 2.6, 3.x already fixed a similar issue with issue4298.
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@@ -351,7 +351,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
-- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
+- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
+ containing incomplete data.
+
+- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
behavior is similar when used with -O.
- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
@@ -360,7 +363,7 @@ Library
know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
-- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn sagfault on bad formatted string.
+- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.