list.sort() fails under Solaris 5.8 for Python 2.1

[Andres Corrada-Emmanuel]

Hello,

I'm having problems with list.sort() on a Solaris 5.8 machine.

My program reads a file that consisting of three columns that it then
sorts using list.sort().

If the input file is small enough (~400 lines), the right output is
obtained. If the file is large (~40K lines), the sort silently fails and
the list is returned unsorted as originally found in the file.

Has anyone else seen this?

Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
Senior Research Fellow
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
University of Massachusetts, Amherst