python shell crashing on paste

[Leo]

I just upgraded to Windows 7 (yes, I know) and I've been having a
really strange problem with running python (2.6.4, installed from the
python.org installer) from the command line.

If I open the interpreter, and then paste in a long string,
conhost.exe crashes. This doesn't happen when pasting the string just
in the command line so its something with the python interpreter.

Here's the details of the windows crash:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
Description:
Faulting application name: conhost.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time
stamp: 0x4a5bc271
Faulting module name: conhost.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time
stamp: 0x4a5bc271
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000048ca
Faulting process id: 0x1aa8
Faulting application start time: 0x01cab4e450b97766
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe
Report Id: 9c6afd6c-20d7-11df-bbd8-e390d387a902

Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any suggestions on how to
even start figuring this out?

--Leo