Christian Heimes added the comment:
The macros don't restrain us to Win2k but they prevent us from using
APIs which are not compatible with Windows 2000. It's a compile time
option to conditionally exclude new features from the header files.
#ifndef NTDDI_VERSION
#define NTDDI_VERSION
Rich Marinaccio added the comment:
To be clear, I am not using multi-threading in my particular module. I
can't explain this behavior with my code alone. The issue is
complicated by the fact that my module is called by Civ IV, and I have
no idea what the game is doing behind the scenes. I
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
Attaching the whole file isn't a step in the right direction. The
preferred approach is to isolate the problem as tightly as possible.
This report is dubious because, I can't get the following to fail:
from random import seed, randint
seed('mystart')
Rich Marinaccio added the comment:
What was happening before was I was getting an index out of range error
every so often, so then I put in the ValueError catch to see what was
going on. I was surprised to see that randIndex was the same as len
(preshuffle). I have some further catches in
Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
The macros don't restrain us to Win2k but they prevent us from using
APIs which are not compatible with Windows 2000. --- That's what I
meant by constrain/restrain: we can't use API that was added in XP
directly. For functions, that is a good thing, because the
Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
I opted for conditionalizing it to OpenBSD; it was wrong on Linux,
anyway, as _BSD_SOURCE has a different meaning there.
Fixed in r59610 and r59611.
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resolution: - fixed
status: open - closed
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Vlastimil Brom added the comment:
First sorry about a delayed response, but moreover, I fear, preparing a
patch would be far beyond my programming competence; sorry about that.
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http://bugs.python.org/issue1688
