[Pythonmac-SIG] slicing of structseq objects fails

[Jack Jansen]

Python-devvers,
Russel Owen reported the following bug, and it turns out to be a
general bug, not a MacPython one: slicing the structseq-style tuples
returned by time.gmtime() returns a sequence with NULLs in it. Shortly
afterwards Python crashes on my SGI.

Any takers?

Recently, Russell E Owen <owen@astro.washington.edu> said:
> The following code fails (G4, MacOS 9.2.1) in Classic MacPython 2.2b1:
> 
> import time
> 
> currUTCTuple= time.gmtime(time.time())
> print "currUTCTuple=%r" % (currUTCTuple,)
> print "currUTCTuple[3:6]=%r" % (currUTCTuple[3:6],)
> fmtTime = "%s:%02i:%02i" % currUTCTuple[3:6]
> print "formatted time = ", fmtTime
> 
> It displays (<NULL>, <NULL>, <NULL>) for currUTCTuple[3:6],
> ...
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