On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:24:42 +0100 Stefan Bucur <stefan.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > However, after applying this modification, when running "make test" I get a > segfault in the test___all__ test case. > > Before digging deeper into the issue, I wanted to ask here if there are any > implicit assumptions about string identity and interning throughout the > interpreter implementation. For instance, are two single-char strings > having the same content supposed to be identical objects?
>From a language POV, no, but inside a specific interpreter such as CPython it may be a reasonable expectation. > I'm assuming that it's either this, or some refcount bug in the interpreter > that manifests only when certain strings are no longer interned and thus > have a higher chance to get low refcount values. Indeed, if it's a real bug it would be nice to get it fixed :-) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
