Problem running two Python interpreters on Darwin

[John Baxter]

In article <3D6C5C94.3020706 at something.invalid>,
 Greg Ewing <see_reply_address at something.invalid> wrote:

> I've just noticed a strange problem with Python
> 2.2.1 on Darwin (Kernel Version 1.4).
> 
> I can start an interactive interpreter session
> in one shell window just fine. But if I leave
> that running and try to start a second one in
> another shell window, I get a Bus Error:
> 
> basil% python
> Bus Error
> basil%
> 
> To make matters even stranger, if I start the
> second one from within gdb, the bus error
> doesn't occur. (I discovered this while trying
> to find out where the bus error was coming
> from. I hate heisenbugs!)
> 
> Anyone have the foggiest what might be
> going on?

Which of the many "flavors" of Python did you build?  I suspect you 
don't have the problem with a "pure Unix" build (such as Apple 
included...Python 2.2...with Mac OS X 10.2) but only with one of the 
forms that includes the framework stuff.

At least, I don't have the problem in 10.2 with the Apple-supplied 
build, nor did I have it with my own "pure Unix" build from last spring.

  --John