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Author cfr
Recipients cfr, loewis
Date 2008-07-17.00:05:17
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Message-id <1216253122.77.0.414558338197.issue3362@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On the off chance this might be helpful:

I get the same error with python 2.4.3.

Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr  7 2006, 10:54:33) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os, sys, locale
>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
Bus error

I do not get the error with the Apple-supplied python 2.3.5:

Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20) 
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os, sys, locale
>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
'US-ASCII'
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2008-07-17 00:05:23cfrsetspambayes_score: 0.0489155 -> 0.048915505
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