[Python-Dev] Debugging opportunity :-)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Apr 14 22:38:37 CEST 2006


At 03:49 PM 4/14/2006 -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
>   That eventually
>pointed to an off-by-one error in the new PyGen_NeedsFinalizing(),
>where reading up trash made it very likely that old generators
>containing an active loop would falsely claim they need finalization.
>Alas, fix that, and Python segfaults when running test_generators.

Even with the close() gimmicks still in place?  If so, it sounds like the 
safest thing for a2 might be to claim that generators always need 
finalizing.  :(



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