[ python-Bugs-1022953 ] binascii.a2b_hqx("") raises SystemError

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Bugs item #1022953, was opened at 2004-09-06 03:59
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 6
Submitted By: Florian Bauer (bauflo3)
Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: binascii.a2b_hqx("") raises SystemError

Initial Comment:
I noticed the following on Python 2.2, Python 2.3 and 
Python 2.4a1 with the Windows builds on WinXP and 
Win2000:

>>> import binascii
>>> binascii.a2b_hqx("")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#12>", line 1, in -toplevel-
    binascii.a2b_hqx("")
SystemError: C:\sf\python\dist23
\src\Objects\stringobject.c:3316: bad argument to 
internal function

The empty string is probably wrong input to a2b_hqx, 
but I think it should raise a ValueError at most, not a 
SystemError.

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>Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2004-09-06 17:59

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Fixed.
See:
  Modules/binascii.c 2.43
  Lib/test/test_binascii.py 1.16

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Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2004-09-06 15:26

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Working on it.

The same error also occurs with a2b_hqx, b2a_uu, b2a_hqx,
and rlecode_hqx.

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