When things go badly in PyGC_Collect()

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.202.1077899652.8594.python-list at python.org>,
Paul Miller  <paul at fxtech.com> wrote:
>
>I'm running into a situation where the first call to PyCG_Collect during a 
>Py_Finalize, is dying a horrible death and throwing an exception. It is 
>after *MANY* iterations of the GC loop, so I haven't pinpointed where 
>exactly it is happening.
>
>Some notes - this is with Python 2.3 BTW, on Windows.
>
>1. this happens in some code where I'm initializing Python, doing some 
>script/module stuff, finalizing Python, and then doing the process again
>2. it happens on the SECOND time, during the Py_Finalize
>3. it only seems to happen if I've used the zip importer
>4. it DOES NOT happen in a trivial test program I wrote that doesn't have 
>all the massive script baggage in my real program

What's the exception and stack trace?  Are you using weakrefs at all?
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