[Armin]
Crash. Which means that there is no way in 2.4.0 to marshal an object in the
old version format as a string -- you'd have to work around by writing a real file and reading it back :-(
[Aahz]
Brown bag time?
Perhaps a rather quick Py2.4.1 would be in order. Ideally, it should include other important fixes: * Tim's critical thread bug http://www.python.org/sf/1069160 * Compile of _socket fails on 2.4 (SGI Orion only) http://www.python.org/sf/1086642 (waiting for a developer who has this set-up) * sys.stdin segfaults on invalid stdin http://www.python.org/sf/1084766 (Jeff Epler has already isolated the problem) * truncated gzip file triggers zlibmodule segfault http://www.python.org/sf/1083110 (assigned to Andrew) * various installer issues (all currently assigned to Martin) * bad arg type to isspace in struct module http://www.python.org/sf/1072182 (assigned to me) * fix bug in StringIO.truncate - length not changed http://www.python.org/sf/951915 (assigned to me) * Fix for off-by-one bug in urllib.URLopener.retrieve http://www.python.org/sf/810023 (assigned to me) Raymond