Why are some infinite recursion stack overflows hard to deal with?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <etdk8ertfaz.fsf at w20-575-115.mit.edu>,
Alex  <cut_me_out at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I get the segfault with vanilla Python 1.5.2 on Redhat 6.2, and also
>with bleeding edge (downloaded this morning) CVS Python:

Interesting.  I get the segfault with 1.5.2/6.1, but not 1.5.2/5.2.
Note that 1.5.2/5.2 was installed over 1.5.1 in a way that probably
still uses some of the 1.5.1 libraries.
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