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  r77576 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-17 13:38:54 +0100 (dim., 17 janv. 2010) | 12 lines

  Merged revisions 77573 via svnmerge from
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    r77573 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-17 13:26:20 +0100 (dim., 17 janv. 2010) | 6 lines

    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
    string instead.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index f2222a1..9ccc787 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -811,6 +811,14 @@
         self.assertRaises(BufferError, delslice)
         self.assertEquals(b, orig)
 
+    def test_empty_bytearray(self):
+        # Issue #7561: operations on empty bytearrays could crash in many
+        # situations, due to a fragile implementation of the
+        # PyByteArray_AS_STRING() C macro.
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, int, bytearray(b''))
+        self.assertRaises((ValueError, OSError), os.mkdir, bytearray(b''))
+
+
 class AssortedBytesTest(unittest.TestCase):
     #
     # Test various combinations of bytes and bytearray