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  r77737 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-24 21:37:42 -0600 (Sun, 24 Jan 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 77735 via svnmerge from
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    r77735 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-24 21:31:13 -0600 (Sun, 24 Jan 2010) | 1 line

    fix an UnboundLocalError when the release file is empty #7773
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 Library
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+- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
+  the release file is empty.
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 - Issue #7561: Fix crashes when using bytearray objects with the posix
   module.