[Tutor] Fatal error after RE-installing Python 2.3.4

[Kent Johnson]

Tony Cappellini wrote:
> 
> I've just started a job which has a massive python2.3.4-centric tools 
> installation and configuration.
> 
> I know what you're going to say, but I can't upgrade and be the only one 
> with a newer version. There are close to 30 engineers using this same 
> tools configuration, and it has been working fine for a long time.
> For now, we all have to live with the limitations and or bugs in 2.3.4.

That's not so bad, judging from this thread you have lots of company:
http://tinyurl.com/nlco7

Most of my work use of Python is with Jython which is still at 
2.1...some days I would kill for a generator ;)

> After editing/testing one of the python test scripts, I was about to check a small script change into cvs, when my mentor suggested running pychecker. When I did this, I saw a several pages full of warnings.
> For me not knowing the code base well enough to know what to expect, He thought this was odd, took the file, ran pychecker on his system, and only sees 4-5 warnings.

Were the extra warnings legitimate (i.e., the code really does have the 
condition being checked) or random (you look at the code and it has 
nothing to do with the warning)? Were the warnings all the same or just 
a few types? Maybe everyone else has pychecker configured to ignore 
those warnings - pychecker allows you to create a .pycheckrc file to 
configure it.

> Now, When I launch Python from a cmd console, the following is reported
> 
> C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe- python
> The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.
> Chose close to terminate the application.

I don't like to blame the hardware but this is pretty strange. Is it 
possible you have a hardware problem? It might be worth running a memory 
checker.

Kent