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  r59925 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 20:34:06 +0100 (Fr, 11 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Raise an error instead of crashing with a segfault when a NULL
  function pointer is called.

  Will backport to release25-maint.
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wrong. Fix issue 1774.

for any integral Decimal instance x.

the art.  It now complies latest specification and tests.

The only difference of this version with the one in the trunk
is that a small subset that hash tests were removed, because
they rely on modifications to core hash() function (see
issue 1182 for further details).

Patch 1114: fix compilation of curses module on 64-bit AIX, and any other LP64 platforms where attr_t isn't a C long

Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
Fix by John Nagle.

Add a hack (originally devised in a slightly different form by Thomas Wouters)
to prevent spurious tracebacks when a daemon thread's cleanup happens to wake
up when the world around it has already been destroyed.

This also backports other small changes to this file, essentially making
it identical to the trunk version.

permissions and times.

(backport from r59712)

Regular Expression inline flags not handled correctly for some unicode
characters.

reveals that a lot more are missing.  If you checked anything into the
2.5.2 branch without updating Misc/NEWS, please correct your mistake!

ctypes 1.0.3 will be also be released).

GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks without
this option!  Thanks to Ismail Donmez.  No thanks to the GCC devs.

Fix issue #1313119.

This patch doesn't remove the wrappers for OSADebug* API's but only defines
them when configure detects that the API's are present in the system's
header files.

merge -r59315:59316 from py3k: Fix issue #1553: An errornous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a SystemError

the start.

(backport from r59260)

PyArgs_ParseTuple t# and w# formats truncated the lengths to 32bit.

 (backport from rev. 59224)

  statement recompilation with no bound parameters lead to a segfault
- Backported a fix necessary because of an SQLite API change in version 3.5.
  This prevents segfaults when executing empty queries, like our test suite
  does.