Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
(Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
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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 #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.