Fixed issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raises SystemError

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a2dbee4d57a4b626a9cc35c65b39d8c2943611f8..7956e9cd945c704a2d4267998f33934bf2c0821c 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 3.0a3?
 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raises SystemError
+
 - Issue #1969: split and rsplit in bytearray are inconsistent
 
 - map() and itertools.imap() no longer accept None for the first argument.