Re: PEP on path module for standard library

2005-07-22 Thread mkent
I really love Jason's 'path' module. Sadly, I've encountered a serious problem with using it. When you try to 'freeze' an application module, and Jason's 'path' module is present in any of the directories that are looked at by freeze's module finder (your app doesn't have to import it), freeze go

Need help:Unable to make runnable Python on AIX 4.3.3

2005-09-22 Thread mkent
I have a vexing problem and seek some input on how to fix it. Starting with Python 2.4.0, I have been unable to compile a working Python on our AIX 4.3.3 development system. I can compile a working Python 2.3.x with no problem. The failure symptom is that Python 2.4.x fails its unit tests on tes

Problem: using signal.alarm() to stop a run-away os.system() command

2005-05-27 Thread mkent
I'm trying to use signal.alarm to stop a run-away os.system command. Can anyone exlain the following behavior? Given following the trivial program: import os import signal def timeoutHandler(signum, frame): print "Timeout" raise ValueError signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, timeoutHandler)

Re: Problem: using signal.alarm() to stop a run-away os.system() command

2005-05-27 Thread mkent
Thanks, that's the kind of on-target info I needed. Now, shouldn't there be some kind of mention of this limitation in the docs? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

AIX 4.3, Python 2.4.1 fails in test_exceptions with a core dump

2005-06-14 Thread mkent
I'm attempting to switch from 2.3.2 to 2.4.1 on our AIX 4.3 development system. I have no problems building Python 2.3.2. I build Python 2.4.1 using 'configure --without-threads; gmake; gmake test', and always get a coredump during the tests on 'test_exceptions'. I've searched for any reports of