backport tim_one's patch: Repair widespread misuse of _PyString_Resize. Since it's clear people don't understand how this function works, also beefed up the docs. The most common usage error is of this form (often spread out across gotos): if (_PyString_Resize(&s, n) < 0) { Py_DECREF(s); s = NULL; goto outtahere; } The error is that if _PyString_Resize runs out of memory, it automatically decrefs the input string object s (which also deallocates it, since its refcount must be 1 upon entry), and sets s to NULL. So if the "if" branch ever triggers, it's an error to call Py_DECREF(s): s is already NULL! A correct way to write the above is the simpler (and intended) if (_PyString_Resize(&s, n) < 0) goto outtahere; Bugfix candidate. Original patch(es): python/dist/src/Python/bltinmodule.c:2.253

/* Portable fmod(x, y) implementation for systems that don't have it */

#include "config.h"

#include "pyport.h"
#include <errno.h>

double
fmod(double x, double y)
{
	double i, f;
	
	if (y == 0.0) {
		errno = EDOM;
		return 0.0;
	}
	
	/* return f such that x = i*y + f for some integer i
	   such that |f| < |y| and f has the same sign as x */
	
	i = floor(x/y);
	f = x - i*y;
	if ((x < 0.0) != (y < 0.0))
		f = f-y;
	return f;
}