python crash problem

[Yelena]

I've been using python to run some large database recently.
I used dbfpy module to access some information stored in dbf format.
However, after 20hrs of running it gave me an error of :
Runtime Error!
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way.Please contact the application's support team for more
information.

The error popped out every time I ran them after 20 hrs. My prediction
was that
it ran over its memory usage, since it has been accumulating the
memory usage
when I was running the program. So I tried deleting/closing I/O
immediately
after they were processed. However, such changes did not make any
difference
in memory usage accumulation.

Could you please give me some advice in fixing problems like this?

Thank you