[Idle-dev] Possible bug in IDLE 0.6

[Guido van Rossum]

> I am using Pyhton on MS Windows 98, Second Edition (Chinese), and have
> encountered a crash when I do the following:
> 
> Python 2.0 (#8, Oct 16 2000, 17:27:58) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> IDLE 0.6 -- press F1 for help
> >>> from array import array
> >>> x = array( 'c', 'Hello World')
> >>> x               <--- IDLE crash when I try to print x

This is unfortunately a known bug in Python 2.0.  It has been fixed in
Python 2.1, which is in alpha (see python.org).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)