[issue24613] array.fromstring Use After Free

[John Leitch]

John Leitch added the comment:

To clarify one point, passing self to array.fromstring works as expected almost all the time in 2.7. My testing revealed anomalous behavior <1% of the time, and it was almost always non-fatal corruption of the buffer. It stands to reason that legacy code may exist that relies on similar operations, and such code would be broken by the requested change.

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