segfault with imp.load_module()

[Michael Hudson]

Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob at zoism.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:23, Neal Norwitz wrote:
> 
> > What version of python, what platform, what compiler, what options?
> > Assuming item = 'oda' this code works for me.
> 
> Redhat 8
> [rob at musicbox rob]$ python
> Python 2.2.1 (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30)
> [GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> 
> 
> If item = "abc" then I get (as expected) ImportError: No module named
> abc
> 
> So any way, I did some more playing and my module had a line:
> 
> from bhh import verbose
> 
> But the bhh module is not in the path, it's in the parent of the
> ./items/ directory.  If I remove that line then there is no segmentation
> fault.

I'm not sure I follow (which may be my fault) but could you come up
with a small, self-contained example?  This certainly looks like a bug
from here.

Cheers,
M.

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