- Fixed #853061: allow BZ2Compressor.compress() to receive an empty string
as parameter.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 275593b..47e2859 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@
- itertools.izip() with no arguments now returns an empty iterator instead
of raising a TypeError exception.
+- Fixed #853061: allow BZ2Compressor.compress() to receive an empty string
+ as parameter.
+
Library
-------
diff --git a/Modules/bz2module.c b/Modules/bz2module.c
index 82d35ae..c75011d 100644
--- a/Modules/bz2module.c
+++ b/Modules/bz2module.c
@@ -1503,6 +1503,9 @@
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#", &data, &datasize))
return NULL;
+ if (datasize == 0)
+ return PyString_FromString("");
+
ACQUIRE_LOCK(self);
if (!self->running) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,