IDLE vs. the command line?

[Istvan Albert]

Otto T Hyvarinen wrote:

> uses C extensions a lot. One of those C methods does the segmentation
> fault when run from the command line, but _not_ when run from the IDLE.
> This is quite strange.

The various ways in which memory corruption manifests itself in
C programs sometime appear to be governed by mysterious
powers, a higher authority or simply IDLE.

Istvan.