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r81364 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-19 22:40:50 +0200 (mer., 19 mai 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
+ Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.
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- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace
(instead of strict) error handler to escape surrogates