Message 155428 - Python tracker

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Having had some time to work on it, the bug is in the unicodeerror.diff patch. If the string is empty then max(s) will raise a ValueError. This is easy to trigger by generating an exception at the python prompt, like "1/0". 

Attached is a revised version of Martin's patch.