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cPickle in Python 2.6.4 segfaults when trying to load the string "0.". 
pickle throws an error. cPickle should at the least not segfault.
$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Nov 2 2009, 14:44:17) 
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pickle, cPickle
>>> pickle.loads("0.")
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 1374, in loads
 return Unpickler(file).load()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 858, in load
 dispatch[key](self)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pickle.py", line 1138, in load_pop
 del self.stack[-1]
IndexError: list assignment index out of range
>>> cPickle.loads("0.")
Segmentation fault (core dumped)