Abend with cls.__repr__ = cls.__str__ on Windows.

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/17/2011 10:00 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/17/2011 8:24 PM, J Peyret wrote:
>> This gives a particularly nasty abend in Windows - "Python.exe has
>> stopped working", rather than a regular exception stack error. I've
>> fixed it, after I figured out the cause, which took a while, but maybe
>> someone will benefit from this.
>>
>> Python 2.6.5 on Windows 7.
>>
>> class Foo(object):
>> pass
>>
>> Foo.__repr__ = Foo.__str__ # this will cause an abend.
>
> 2.7.1 and 3.2.0 on winxp, no problem, interactive intepreter or IDLE
> shell. Upgrade?

To be clear, the above, with added indent, but with extra fluff (fixes) 
removed, is exactly what I ran. If you got error with anything else, 
please say so. Described behavior for legal code is a bug. However, 
unless a security issue, it would not be fixed for 2.6.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy