Comment 3 for bug 1435242

This bug was fixed in the package python2.7 - 2.7.9-2ubuntu3

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python2.7 (2.7.9-2ubuntu3) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20150401, taken from the 2.7 release branch.
    - Issue #23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for
      variable-sized objects.
    - Issue #21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5.
    - Issue #23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty
      result on MemoryError.
    - Issue #23742: ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single
      quotes.
    - Issue #21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when
      closing writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
    - Issue #23671: string.Template now allows to specify the "self" parameter
      as keyword argument. string.Formatter now allows to specify the "self"
      and the "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments.
    - Issue #21560: An attempt to write a data of wrong type no longer cause
      GzipFile corruption.
    - Issue #23647: Increase imaplib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox
      sizes.
    - Issue #23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now
      sets Content-Length to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid
      411 errors from some web servers.
    - Issue #23136: _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0,
      including Dec 30 of previous year.
    - Issue #23138: Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in
      cookiejar.
    - Issue #23051: multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and imap_unordered()
      now handle exceptions raised by an iterator.
    - Issue #22928: Disabled HTTP header injections in httplib.
    - Issue #23615: Module tarfile now can be reloaded with imp.reload().
    - Issue #23799: Added test.test_support.start_threads() for running and
      cleaning up multiple threads.
    - Issue #22390: test.regrtest now emits a warning if temporary files or
      directories are left after running a test.
    - Issue #23583: Added tests for standard IO streams in IDLE.
    - Issue #23583: Fixed writing unicode to standard output stream in IDLE.
  * Re-apply the fix for issue #22079. This is now a warning instead of an
    error. LP: #1426294.
  * Fix issue #23842, SystemError in os.minor, os.major. LP: #1435242.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Apr 2015 16:13:26 +0200