[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/doc - INSTALL.txt:1.33

kapil thangavelu kvthan@wm.edu
Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:18:08 -0700


thanks for the explanation.

i can confirm python2.2.2 (release22-maint branch) fixes the problem for me.

-kapil

On Monday 07 October 2002 04:28 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> I'm fairly sure this is the type_new() bug in Python 2.2.1, which
> causes Python to dump core creating ExtensionClass types.  This is one
> of the reasons to do 2.2.2 now.  The effect of the bug varies with
> platform.  On some platforms (like mine), the garbage memory it reads
> is usually NULL and so it has no effect.
>
> Jeremy