[Pythonmac-SIG] Python interactive segfaults on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

[Ned Deily]

In article <nad-13C89C.17244325102013 at news.gmane.org>,
 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> SInce OS X 10.9 Mavericks is now out, people are running into a severe 
> problem 
> when using some Python interpreters interactively.  The symptom is that the 
> interpreter in interactive mode crashes after typing two lines:
[...]
> The fix for the problem has been released in the current 3.4.0a4 installers.  
> It will be available in the installers for Python 3.3.3 and 2.7.6, which are 
> expected to be released in the near future.  Release candidate installers for 
> both should be available by Monday.
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue18458
> 
> Otherwise, for the most part, the transition to OS X 10.9 appears to be 
> relatively problem-free so far.  Please open issues on the Python bug tracker 
> for any new problems you encounter (after doing a quick search to see if it 
> has already been reported!).

Update: Release candidate installers for 3.3.3 and 2.7.6 are now available:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.3/
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.6/

In addition, a problem in the Tk 8.5 gui library that may affect users of IDLE 
or other tkinter-based applications running on OS X 10.9 has been fixed 
upstream.  "rc1_rev1" installers including the fixed Tk library should be 
available shortly.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org