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r79674 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-03 15:05:10 +0100 (Sat, 03 Apr 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #8300: Let struct.pack use __index__ to convert and pack non-integers.
Based on a patch by Meador Inge.
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Extension Modules
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+- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
+ integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
+ using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
+ TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
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- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
- Issue #6949: Allow the _dbm extension to be built with db 4.8.x.