Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
(Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 45ab6a4..a1edc77 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -705,6 +705,7 @@
Guilherme Polo
Michael Pomraning
Iustin Pop
+Claudiu Popa
John Popplewell
Amrit Prem
Paul Prescod
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d52156d..5289c37 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
Library
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+- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
+ with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
+ (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
+
- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
present.