[New-bugs-announce] [issue32827] Fix incorrect usage of _PyUnicodeWriter_Prepare()

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com>:

Based on discussion in PR 660.

_PyUnicodeWriter_Prepare() is used incorrectly in unicode_decode_call_errorhandler_writer(), _PyUnicode_DecodeUnicodeEscape() and PyUnicode_DecodeRawUnicodeEscape() in Objects/unicodeobject.c. The second argument is the number of characters that should be reserved after the current position. But in these places the total minimal size is passed to _PyUnicodeWriter_Prepare(). This can lead to allocating more memory than necessary.

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components: Interpreter Core, Unicode
messages: 312038
nosy: ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner, xiang.zhang
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Fix incorrect usage of _PyUnicodeWriter_Prepare()
type: resource usage
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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