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Author vstinner
Recipients Ramchandra Apte, amaury.forgeotdarc, docs@python, graemeglass, vstinner
Date 2012-02-14.00:10:09
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> Should it seg fault or just throw an exception?

Python cannot do anything useful on such fatal error. In Python 3.3, there is a faulthandler module which can help to debug: it dumps the traceback of all threads on such fatal error. It is also available as a third party module on PyPI:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/faulthandler
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