"""CPython issue #18909.

Segfault on win-amd64 due to corrupt pointer to Tkapp_Interp.

Using 64 bit CPython 2.6.6, 2.7.5, 3.2.5 or 3.3.2, numpy 1.7.1,
and matplotlib 1.3.0 on Windows 8 64 bit, this script segfaults
most of the times.

"""

# allocate ~4GB fragmented data
import numpy
a = [numpy.zeros(2**i, 'uint8') for i in range(1, 31)]
b = [numpy.zeros(131072, 'float64') for i in range(2048)]

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
from matplotlib import pyplot
pyplot.plot()
pyplot.show()