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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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