newbie: comparing mutually recursive lists

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <37F22275.3E4FACB2 at psn.net>,
Andrew Hutcheson  <hutch at psn.net> wrote:
>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?

FYI, I get it on 1.5.2 on Solaris 2.5.1.
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