[Numpy-discussion] Crash on (un-orthodox) __import__

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 17:25, Paul Ivanov <pivanov314 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Andrea Gavana <andrea.gavana at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>     I was fiddling here and there with some code doing dynamic import of
>> stuff, and I noticed that this code:
>> import os
>> import sys
>> init_name = r"C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py"
>> directory, module_name = os.path.split(init_name)
>> main = os.path.splitext(module_name)[0]
>> sys.path.insert(0, os.path.normpath(directory))
>> # Crash here...
>> mainmod = __import__(main)
>
>
> in this case, your main is '__init__' and your directory is
> 'C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\numpy' which is probably not what you
> intended. You should make directory 'C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages'
> and main into 'numpy'

Still, it shouldn't segfault, and it's worth figuring out why it does.
gdb has been mostly unenlightening for me since gdb won't let me
navigate the traceback.

-- 
Robert Kern

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enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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