Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:50:25 -0800, slogging_away wrote: > > >>Excellent suggestion, (behold the power of the command line!). I ran >>two saved versions of the script that had produced the symptom >>originally described. The fist seemed to be caused by too many 'if' >>statements, the second by adding another array, but both came up with >>the same system error at the command prompt level shown here: >> >>SystemError: com_backpatch: offset too large > > > Is this a Python error or a shell error? > > If it is a Python error, perhaps you would like to post the entire > traceback? > > >
I would believe CamelCaseErrorMessages are produced by Python. The message is exactly the same I reported with the 2500 elifs. I fooled around a bit with this, and it seems that also for/while blocks containing more than ~4860 lines give this error. slogging_away claims his script is about 4900 lines, most of that in a for loop, so my bet is he has trouble with the same bug. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
