[Python-Dev] Possible error in Python 2.4 garbage collector

2007-11-26 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Hi, we're running into a problem with the Python interpreter, which we suspect triggers a bug in the garbage collector or a related part of the memory management. We are using Python 2.4.4 in the version from Debian 4.0. Our C application imports various Python plugins using PyNode_Compile().

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible error in Python 2.4 garbage collector

2007-11-26 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: This is almost certainly not a bug in python. A cursory look indicates that a list being traversed in list_traverse has a NULL member. I'd suggest examining the other members of the list to figure out what this list is. Use the debugger for this, that is what it