[New-bugs-announce] [issue19983] Ctrl-C causes startup crashes on Windows

[Jurko Gospodnetić]

New submission from Jurko Gospodnetić:

If you press Ctrl-C during Python startup on Windows you may get interpreter crashes with different Python tracebacks displayed on the standard system error output stream.

Reproduced using:
  - Windows 7 SP1 x64
  - Python 3.3.3 (64-bit) as downloaded from 'http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.3' (but seen with different earlier Python versions as well).
  - either a non-trivial Python script, one containing only a '#! python3' shabang line, or a completely empty one
  - default site.py

To reproduce simply run the Python interpreter with a prepared Python script as input and press Ctrl-C immediately afterwards.

Possible results:
  * Script finishes before your Ctrl-C kicks in.
  * You get a clean KeyboardInterrupt traceback and the script exits.
  * You get a KeyboardInterrupt traceback and the interpreter process crashes.

I'm attaching more detailed information on specific crash instances.

For some more information & background see the devel mailing list thread started at: 'https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-December/130750.html'.

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components: Interpreter Core, Windows
files: crash-info-10.txt
messages: 206212
nosy: Jurko.Gospodnetić
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Ctrl-C causes startup crashes on Windows
type: crash
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33137/crash-info-10.txt

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