[Python-Dev] windows buildbot failures (original) (raw)

Andrew MacIntyre andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au
Sun Apr 23 14:31:42 CEST 2006

Tim Peters wrote:

[Andrew MacIntyre]

Hmm... I don't appear to have explained what I meant very well :-|

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This really needs an executable example. Here's my best guess about what you mean, but I don't see any of what you're describing on WinXP Pro SP2:

And a pretty good guess it was too!

Although I hadn't expected/intended any research to be applied to my note (except if the original problem involved undeletable files on the buildbots), I'm relieved your experiment turned up no problem; it makes the case stronger against something in the local setup.

FWIW, the particular cases I remember seeing involved applications built with ctypes and Venster (Win32 GUI wrapper over ctypes) with a lot of COM calls, with Python 2.2.3.

I've never reported this as a Python bug If you do, I'll probably add a comment like the above ;-)

;-)

because I've considered the antivirus SW likely to be the culprit. Could be. FWIW, Norton AV was running during the above.

The anti-virus on my work XP Pro SP2 system has been a source of considerable annoyance in many situations, so its the first thing I blame...

I don't recall seeing this with Windows 2000, but much was changed in the transition from the Win2k SOE to the WinXP SOE. What's that? Shitty Out-of-box Experience ;-)?

That too! Our outsourced IT supplier seems to think it means Standard Operating Environment, but I haven't figured out what's "standard" about it...

Cheers, Andrew.

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