From dba2deeca2c070e2dfa08649b5729208567fd414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:50:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fill_number() ensures that the 'digits' string is ready

---
 Python/formatter_unicode.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Python/formatter_unicode.c b/Python/formatter_unicode.c
index 86385f6f7fc..52ccafa8d08 100644
--- a/Python/formatter_unicode.c
+++ b/Python/formatter_unicode.c
@@ -587,7 +587,10 @@ fill_number(PyObject *out, Py_ssize_t pos, const NumberFieldWidths *spec,
     /* Only for type 'c' special case, it has no digits. */
     if (spec->n_digits != 0) {
         /* Fill the digits with InsertThousandsGrouping. */
-        char *pdigits = PyUnicode_DATA(digits);
+        char *pdigits;
+        if (PyUnicode_READY(digits))
+            return -1;
+        pdigits = PyUnicode_DATA(digits);
         if (PyUnicode_KIND(digits) < kind) {
             pdigits = _PyUnicode_AsKind(digits, kind);
             if (pdigits == NULL)