[Python-Dev] Need traceback expert to review patch 954922
Brett C.
bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Tue May 18 14:43:47 EDT 2004
Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hello Greg,
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 02:33:42PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>
>>Now that we have a garbage collector, is it really necessary
>>any more? What would happen if we simply set sys.modules to
>>None and then invoked the collector?
>
>
> There is a patch on SF that does this. Brett, can you see if this patch helps
> in your case?
>
> http://www.python.org/sf/812369
>
It segfaulted when it normally spits out a bunch of tracebacks about
sys.stderr being None from the interpreter tearing itself down.
-Brett
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