Mike Meyer wrote: > There is something very non-unixy going on here, though. Why is > vm_malloc exiting with an error message, instead of returning a > failure to the calling application? I've seen other applications > include a FOSS malloc implementation to work around bugs in the > system's malloc. Maybe Python should do that on the Mac?
from what I can tell (by reading the google hits), the malloc implementation prints a message, but returns NULL as usual (you can find reports of this message preceeding a MemoryError traceback). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
