Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > The original text file was an IRC log. Shoving Charles Dickens' "Great > Expectations" 17 times in a text file and then parsing it doesn't show > this problem for some weird reason.
I'd say the "weird reason" is probably a bug in your script. For example the following appears very dubious: for o in self.wlist: if len(o) > 0xFF: o = o[:0xFF] fp.write(chr(len(o))) fp.write(o) for s in self.wlist[o]: In any case, the idea that one of Python's built-in containers would silently *drop* values (rather than segfault or produce a MemoryError) is in itself quite unbelievable, due to the way those containers funciton. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3104> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com