[Tutor] IDLE Crashing

[Luke Paireepinart]

Hi Adam.
Adam Gomaa wrote:
> I'm having trouble with this script. When I run it, it crashes IDLE... 
> which is no fun. :(
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 w/ python 2.4
>
> When I say crash, I mean really _crash_. IDLE stop responding, and I 
> have to killall idle && killall python2.4 before I can restart it (cause 
> python2.4 keeps the TCP port open, I'm assuming)
>
> A few notes:
> list.txt is a text file with 99 lines, each with three letters on it.
> In ./retrieves, I have 99 files of style [xyz].1.txt. (in addition to 
> list.txt) These are retrieved HTML pages that have the HTML stripped 
> (the actual script is part of a series of scripts to download and format 
> my school's course catalog)
> It seems to crash on the final iteration of the second for loop, no 
> matter what file it's on at that point (which I've changed by changing 
> x&y in 'for each in filelist[x:y]:' to diffrent values), so I don't 
> think it has anything to do with the actual files it's accessing.
>
> -----
> #2006 Adam Gomaa, Public Domain
> listfiles=open('retrieves/list.txt','r')
> fileread=listfiles.read() ##reads list.txt and assings to fileread
> filelist=[]
> filelist=fileread.splitlines() ##each filelist word is 3-letter combo
> listfiles.close()
> count,count2=0,0 ##for debugging
> textstringlist=[]
> goodlist1=[]
> for each in filelist[:-50]: ##filelist[x:y] always crashes for any value 
> of x,y
>     print count ##for debugging
>     count=count+1
>     textfileread=open('retrieves/%s.1.txt' % each,'r')
>     textstring=textfileread.read()
>     textfileread.close()
>     each=each.upper()
>     textstringlist=textstring.split(each)##if I comment out from here...
>   
Did you really mean to split the string on every occurrence of 'each' 
and not on each newline?
>     for each2 in textstringlist[:]: #changing to textstringlist[3:-3] 
> still results in crash
>         count2=count2+1
>         print count2,'is count2' ##this gets quite high, into thousands, 
> before stopping on the final iteration (and crashing)
>         if 'Prerequisites' in each2:
>             goodlist1.append(each2)##to here, it doesn't crash
> print goodlist1
> ------
>
> Anyone have an insight?
> If someone would like me to I can tar the 99 files & list.txt and post a 
> link.
>   
I can't tell what's wrong without looking at your input files and a more 
detailed explanation of what
you're trying to do.  If someone else comes along with help, that's 
great, but if not, I'll download the
tar and see what I can do.
> Thanks,
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