python crash problem

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Sat Feb 5 03:01:00 EST 2011


On Feb 3, 8:21 am, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 2/2/2011 2:19 PM, Yelena wrote:
>
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>
> When having a problem with a 3rd party module, not part of the stdlib,
> you should give a source.
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbfpy/
> This appears to be a compiled extension. Nearly always, when Python
> crashes running such, it is a problem with the extension. So you
> probably need to direct your question to the author or a project mailing
> list if there is one.

It has always appeared to me to be a pure-Python package. There are
no .c or .pyx files in the latest source (.tgz) distribution. The
Windows installer installs only files whose extensions match
"py[co]?".



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