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  r72848 | eric.smith | 2009-05-23 09:56:13 -0400 (Sat, 23 May 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 6089: str.format raises SystemError.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #6089: Fixed str.format with certain invalid field specifiers
+  that would raise SystemError.
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 - Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError.  This
   makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
   and imaginary literals.