Deleting objects in Python 1.6

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> There are easier ways of crashing Python 1.5.2; 
> 
> >>> l=[]
> >>> m=[]     
> >>> l.append(l)
> >>> m.append(m)
> >>> l==m
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

> >>> import marshal
> >>> l=[]          
> >>> l.append(l)
> >>> marshal.dumps(l)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 

This is slightly unnerving ... (good to know, though) ... I want to
write long-running programs in python that run user-supplied code.

I take it all of these well-known problems will be fixed in python
1.6?

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