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r77821 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000 (Fri, 29 Jan 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #7788: Fix a crash produced by deleting a list slice with huge
step value. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
+ slice with very large step value.
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- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty