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  r64968 | thomas.heller | 2008-07-15 19:03:08 +0200 (Di, 15 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue #3258: Fix an assertion error (in debug build) and a crash (in
  release build) when the format string of a pointer to an incomplete
  structure is created.
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  r64971 | thomas.heller | 2008-07-15 19:19:50 +0200 (Di, 15 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  NEWS entry for #issue 3258.
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 Library
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+- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
+  incomplete structure was created.
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 - Issue #2683: Fix inconsistency in subprocess.Popen.communicate(): the
   argument now must be a bytes object in any case.