[Python-Dev] Re: Another test_compiler mystery

[Armin Rigo]

Hello Tim,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:17:18PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> Looks like nobody has an explanation yet for why 2.3.4 consistently
> yielded MemoryError but 2.4a2 mixes those with spurious KeyError and
> SyntaxError exceptions.

The reason is that Py_EnterRecursiveCall() was only introduced in 2.4.  
Comparisons didn't throw RuntimeErrors that easily in 2.3.


Armin