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  r68589 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-14 00:13:52 +0100 (mer., 14 janv. 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
  to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
  the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
+  to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
+  the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
+
 - Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
   an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
   code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the