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CHANGES.txt

 ``persistent`` Changelog
 ========================
 
-4.0.5 (2012-12-13)
+4.0.5 (unreleased)
 ------------------
 
 - Fixed the C-extensions under Py3k (previously they compiled but were

persistent/cPersistence.c

@@ -430,13 +430,13 @@ pickle___getstate__(PyObject *self)
         for (i = 0; i < PyList_GET_SIZE(slotnames); i++)
         {
             PyObject *name, *value;
+            char *cname;
+            int is_special;
 
             name = PyList_GET_ITEM(slotnames, i);
 #ifdef PY3K
             if (PyUnicode_Check(name))
             {
-                char *cname;
-                int is_special;
                 PyObject *converted = convert_name(name);
                 cname = PyBytes_AS_STRING(converted);
 #else

setup.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #
 ##############################################################################
 
-__version__ = '4.0.5'
+__version__ = '4.0.5dev'
 
 import os
 import platform