script exits prematurely with no stderr output, but with system errors

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/20/2016 4:55 PM, Larry Martell wrote:

> Yes, I was thinking that as well about the "page allocation failure"
> message, but it's almost like there were 2 errors, the first being the
> unhandled exception. But why would it not output something to stderr?

Formatting a traceback requires memory.  As I remember, Python gives up 
after out-of-memory error.  It might be that the out-of-memory caused a 
MemoryException that was not handled.

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Terry Jan Reedy