import Random: NV_MAGICCONST deviates too much.

[Michael Hudson]

marijn at sanity.dhs.org (marijn Vriens) writes:

> Hi all...
> 
> I have get a strange exception when importing random. 
> I brought it down to:
> 
> Python 2.1.2 (#1, Jan 18 2002, 18:05:45) 
> [GCC 2.95.4  (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import gnome.ui
> >>> import random
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/random.py", line 93, in ?
>     _verify('NV_MAGICCONST', 1.71552776992141)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/random.py", line 88, in _verify
>     raise ValueError(
> ValueError: computed value for NV_MAGICCONST deviates too much
> (computed 2,82843, expected 1)
> >>> 
> 
> If I first import random and then gnome.ui I have no problems. my
> distr is debian woody with the standard python packages (not
> self-compiled) on an
> AMD-K6 
> 
> Anybody know what's going on ?

At a guess, something in gnome.ui is buggering around with locale
settings.  Don't know if this actually helps -- I can't see quite how
it could produce the above error...

Cheers,
M.

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