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  r77501 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-14 18:34:48 +0100 (jeu., 14 janv. 2010) | 10 lines

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    r77499 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-14 18:25:24 +0100 (jeu., 14 janv. 2010) | 4 lines

    Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
    argument values in debug mode.  Patch by Victor Stinner.
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 Library
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+- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
+  argument values in debug mode.  Patch by Victor Stinner.
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 - Issue #7681: Use floor division in appropiate places in the wave module.
 
 - Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since