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r67049 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-10-30 22:18:34 +0100 (jeu., 30 oct. 2008) | 8 lines
Issue #4176: Pickle would crash the interpreter when a __reduce__ function
does not return an iterator for the 4th and 5th items.
(sequence-like and mapping-like state)
A list is not an iterator...
Will backport to 2.6 and 2.5.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
+ method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
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- Issue 3723: Fixed initialization of subinterpreters.
- Issue #4213: The file system encoding is now normalized by the