[Pydispatcher-devel] py2.3 (pre-2.3.3) weakref crashes

[Drew P. <dr...@bi...>]

FYI, dispatcher is able to trigger the bug recently discussed on
py-dev. This means that in Python versions approx 2.3 to 2.3.3, you may
get core dumps upon exit, and possibly seg faults earlier, and possibly
memory corruption.

The detailed description of the bug is here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/dist/src/Modules/gc_weakref.txt?rev=2.1&view=auto

The observed symptom for me was a core dump upon exit, where the traceback
involved some GC cleanup function and finished at some object attribute
accessor function. (Sorry, I don't have the trace handy.)

I shall be testing the release23-maint cvs branch today. The upcoming
2.3.3 release claims to fix the bug.

-Drew