[Pythonmac-SIG] RE: [Python-Dev] slicing of structseq objects fails

Tim Peters tim@zope.com
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:51:11 -0500


[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?

Sure, it was a shallow bug in the new structseq code and has been fixed in
current CVS.  Next time, how about a bug report on SourceForge instead?