[Numpy-discussion] Segmentation fault with argsort

[Skipper Seabold]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can you give us a gdb backtrace?
>

No idea what I'm doing, but I figure I should learn a bit...  Does
this look right?

skipper at linux-desktop:~$ gdb python
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/python...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/python2.6...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run argsort_seg.py
Starting program: /usr/bin/python argsort_seg.py
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000004b499a in _PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords_SizeT
(args=0x7ffff7f54ad0, keywords=0x7ffff6d89eb0,
    format=0x7ffff6d9308d "|O&O&O", kwlist=0x7ffff6faa5a0) at
../Python/getargs.c:1409
1409    ../Python/getargs.c: No such file or directory.
        in ../Python/getargs.c
(gdb)