[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I would close this anyway, but 2.6 is no longer maintained even for security patches. -- stage: -> resolved status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I suggest to close this issue as caused by a bug in third party extension. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka resolution: -> third party status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker _

[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

Ned Deily added the comment: The recent fixes do not address cases like here where importing a module causes a crash in the interpreter process, usually due to some faulty third-party extension module. One way to handle it more gracefully might be to move the import scan to a separate interp

[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

Éric Araujo added the comment: Unless I’m mistaken, this is another of the duplicate reports for the bug fixed by Ned in 2.7 recently. -- nosy: +eric.araujo, ned.deily ___ Python tracker _

[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Doing "help('modules')" and "help(), help> modules" should be the same. My point is that the crash is not Python's fault, but it's caused by some extension module that gets imported by help('modules'). This module is probably not installed on the other machines

[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

Balachandran Sivakumar added the comment: But this doesn't happen in other versions of python. Also what I did is something like this: bala@bala$ python ... ... >>> help() ... ... ... help > modules It is after this I see it dumping. And I see this only with 2.6.6. I have other versions in ot

[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

Ezio Melotti added the comment: help("modules") imports all the modules, and you probably have some module that once imported makes the interpreter crash (maybe _keybinder? you could try importing that from the interpreter and see if it crashes). The deprecation warnings comes from deprecated

[issue13027] python 2.6.6 interpreter core dumps on modules command from help prompt

New submission from Balachandran Sivakumar : >From the python 2.6.6 interpreter on Debian Lenny(Debian 5.0), on invoking >help(), and issuing the modules command, the interpreter seg faults, and dumps >core. Also, it throws a few Deprecated warnings for modules like md5. The gdb >backtrace on