[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-742342 ] Python crashes if recursively reloading modules

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Bugs item #742342, was opened at 2003-05-23 14:03
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Christian Eder (chris_ce)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Python crashes if recursively reloading modules

Initial Comment:
If one tries to recursively reload modules, python crashes with a 
segfault. e.g. if the file "foo.py" looks something like:
import 
foo
reload (foo)
....

the python interpreter crashes 
when reading this file.

I have been able to reproduce the 
problem both with
python2.2 and python2.3 under 
linux.

Although recursive reloads are faulty code, this 
should lead to an exception but not to a segfault of the 
interpreter.
In our case, this bug allows a faulty user script to 
crash our program.

Sorry if this is already a known bug, but I 
searched in Sorceforge (and also in Google) and did not find 
something similar.


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