[SciPy-Dev] netcdf segfault

[Benjamin Root]

Hello,

I was trying out the scipy.io.netcdf module in order to work on the
documentation and I came across a way to segfault out of python.  If you
open an existing netcdf file as read-only and then try to set a scalar value
using .assignValue for a 1-element netcdf_variable, the program segfaults
rather than raising an exception.

Here is an example to go with a very small netcdf file as a test:

from scipy.io import netcdf
f = netcdf.netcdf_file("testdata.netcdf", 'r')
tval = f.variables['t']
tval.assignValue(42)
f.close()

Ben Root
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