newbie: comparing mutually recursive lists

[Andrew Hutcheson]

If I create a pair of mutually recursive lists like

	a,b=[],[]
	a.append(b)
	b.append(a)

and try to compare them I get a segmentation fault.  I'm using the
version of Python that comes with Debian 2.1 (Python 1.5.1 (#1, Dec 17
1998, 20:58:15)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2 ).  Does anyone know if this
problem has been fixed?  Failing that, can anyone suggest a workaround?

-andy

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