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  r82941 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-18 08:29:02 +0100 (Sun, 18 Jul 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #9277: Struct module: standard bool packing was incorrect if
  char is unsigned.  Thanks Stefan Krah for the patch.
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  r82943 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-18 08:48:20 +0100 (Sun, 18 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Misc/NEWS entry for r82941.
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 Extension Modules
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+- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
+  (e.g., struct.pack('>?')):  if conversion to bool raised an exception
+  then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
+  char is unsigned.
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