[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-469681 ] Replace a whole string with empty string (original) (raw)

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Bugs item #469681, was opened at 2001-10-09 14:36 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=469681&group_id=5470

Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Replace a whole string with empty string

Initial Comment: Replaceing a whole string with an empty string is behaving differently in Unix and windows environment. It raises a memory error in Unix as shown below:

UNIX RUN: Python 2.1 (#18, May 24 2001, 14:56:32) [C] on osf1V4 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

x = 'test' x.replace('test','') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? MemoryError

The same test has passed in Windows environment:

PythonWin 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32. Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (MarkH@ActiveState.com) - see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.

x = 'test' x.replace('test','') '' x 'test'

Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) Date: 2001-10-09 16:20

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I can't reproduce this either with Python 2.1.1. I believe it's been fixed there; can you try?

Comment By: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg) Date: 2001-10-09 15:08

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I tried to reproduce this on Linux but did not succeed. Could this be a compiler optimization problem on the OSF system ? Does the same problem occur if you compile Python without optimization ?

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