Ismail Donmez added the comment: Indeed you are correct,
>>> '\ta\n\tb'.expandtabs(2147483647) Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. string_expandtabs (self=0xb7ba7c60, args=0xb7ba7dec) at Objects/stringobject.c:3358 3358 *q++ = ' '; (gdb) bt #0 string_expandtabs (self=0xb7ba7c60, args=0xb7ba7dec) at Objects/stringobject.c:3358 #1 0xb7e1b6dd in PyCFunction_Call (func=0xb7ba72ec, arg=0xb7ba7dec, kw=0x0) at Objects/methodobject.c:73 #2 0xb7e6d05b in PyEval_EvalFrameEx (f=0x80cc40c, throwflag=0) at Python/ceval.c:3569 #3 0xb7e6ec35 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx (co=0xb7b987b8, globals=0xb7bceacc, locals=0xb7bceacc, args=0x0, argcount=0, kws=0x0, kwcount=0, defs=0x0, defcount=0, closure=0x0) at Python/ceval.c:2832 #4 0xb7e6ee53 in PyEval_EvalCode (co=0xb7b987b8, globals=0xb7bceacc, locals=0xb7bceacc) at Python/ceval.c:494 #5 0xb7e8ea8d in PyRun_InteractiveOneFlags (fp=0xb7d48420, filename=0xb7ec589c "<stdin>", flags=0xbff3c6a8) at Python/pythonrun.c:1273 #6 0xb7e8ecc6 in PyRun_InteractiveLoopFlags (fp=0xb7d48420, filename=0xb7ec589c "<stdin>", flags=0xbff3c6a8) at Python/pythonrun.c:723 #7 0xb7e8f427 in PyRun_AnyFileExFlags (fp=0xb7d48420, filename=0xb7ec589c "<stdin>", closeit=0, flags=0xbff3c6a8) at Python/pythonrun.c:692 #8 0xb7e9a347 in Py_Main (argc=0, argv=0xbff3c774) at Modules/main.c:523 #9 0x080485a2 in main (argc=538976288, argv=0x20202020) at ./Modules/python.c:23 Though I am not exactly sure how to proceed from here. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1608> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com