Python-1.5.2 cPickle

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:05:26AM +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
> In message <20000822100758.J4798 at xs4all.nl>, Thomas Wouters
> <thomas at xs4all.net> writes
> ...
> >Ah, yes, now I can reproduce this too, under regular 1.5.2. No, I don't
> >think this is acceptible. It's also already fixed in 2.0-CVS, at least, and
> >probably in 1.6 as well (don't have a 'real' 1.6 around to test.)

> I was getting different behaviour with Gordon McMillan's installer with
> and without stackless installed. I think the stackless 1.5.42+ must be
> based on a later source and with it installed I would get an import
> error.

Yes, IIRC Stackless is based on '1.5.2+', which was the CVS tree between
1.5.2-release and 1.6a1.

> Are there really any circumstances when a python program should just
> crash out so inelegantly? In an embedded python surely there should be
> some way to inform the embedding app that python has just decided it
> can't go on.

No, it shouldn't, that's why it's called "a bug" and also why it's been
fixed :-)

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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