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  r78418 | eric.smith | 2010-02-24 09:15:36 -0500 (Wed, 24 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #7309: Unchecked pointer access when converting UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
+  UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
+  strings.
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 - Issue #7649: Fix u'%c' % char for character in range 0x80..0xFF, raise an
   UnicodeDecodeError