[R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com>] > Emerge uses Python, and 2.7 is the default system python on Gentoo, > so unless he changed his default, that error almost certainly came from > the existing Python he was having trouble with.
Yes, "The Python used to run `emerge` here was a --with-pydebug Python the bug reporter built earlier". > Just for fun I re-emerged 2.7.3-r3 on my system, and that worked fine. Thanks for trying! Note that only a debug-build (or at least with PYMALLOC_DEBUG defined) Python can generate a "bad leading pad byte" error, so if you didn't use a debug-build Python to run `emerge`, you could not have seen the same error. _______________________________________________ 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
