[egenix-users] mx.DateTime segfault with Python 2.3a1 (Linux)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jacob Smullyan wrote:
> Testing mx.DateTime (egenix-mx-base-2.0.4) with the 2.3 alpha, I get a
> segfault right off the bat:
> 
> smulloni at bracknell smulloni $ /home/smulloni/python-2.3a1/bin/python
> Python 2.3a1 (#1, Jan  1 2003, 12:14:23) 
> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> 
>>>>import mx.DateTime
> 
> Segmentation fault
> 
> I have strace output if anyone cares to see it.
> 
> My python is configured --with-pydebug. 

That's due to Python 2.3 having pymalloc enabled by default.
The egenix-mx-base 2.1 beta 5 (see this lists archive) doesn't
have this problem anymore.

> Is there a later pre-release build of mx.DateTime I should be using with
> 2.3?

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