[issue25271] SystemError when doing codecs.escape_encode(b'')

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[issue25271] SystemError when doing codecs.escape_encode(b'')

New submission from Florian Bruhin: I can reproduce this with 3.4.3 and 3.5.0: >>> import codecs >>> codecs.escape_encode(b'') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in SystemError: Objects/bytesobject.c:3553: bad argument to internal function -- components: Interpreter