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  r77499 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-14 18:25:24 +0100 (jeu., 14 janv. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
  argument values in debug mode.  Patch by Victor Stinner.
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+- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
+  argument values in debug mode.  Patch by Victor Stinner.
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 - Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode.  Initial patch
   by Matt Giuca.