[issue1521] string.decode() fails on long strings

[Andreas Eisele]

Andreas Eisele added the comment:

> Then 7G is "enough" for the test to run.

yes, indeed, thanks for pointing this out.
It runs and detects an ERROR, and after applying your patch it succeeds.

What else needs to be done to make sure your patch finds it's way to the
Python core?

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