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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-11-21 22:27:24 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-11-21 22:27:24 (GMT)
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don't segfault when \N escapes are used and unicodedata fails to load
Fixes #4367
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
+ module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
+
- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``