[Python-Dev] Re: Another test_compiler mystery (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Thu Aug 12 20:55:21 CEST 2004

Hello Tim,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:17:18PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

Looks like nobody has an explanation yet for why 2.3.4 consistently yielded MemoryError but 2.4a2 mixes those with spurious KeyError and SyntaxError exceptions.

The reason is that Py_EnterRecursiveCall() was only introduced in 2.4.
Comparisons didn't throw RuntimeErrors that easily in 2.3.

Armin

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