spurious IndexError [interfacing with swig generated code]

[jonathan at webtop.com]

Hi

We've been using swig to generate a python binding to a company 
C++ class library.

I've spotted a bug/problem which occurs in the following code :

[call to unrelated SWIG generated constructor]
w ="article";
v ="articl";
print w==v; # fails here with a spurious IndexError (list index out of range)

Has anyone seen a similar problem before, or know a fix?


Jon