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Author	neologix
Recipients	antlong, belopolsky, ned.deily, neologix
Date	2011-02-26.11:41:09
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Message-id	<1298720470.13.0.824951769799.issue11327@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> If it's broken, complain to Apple. Actually, I checked glibc's asctime, and it has the same behaviour. But the point is that asctime can return NULL. > That still doesn't explain the OP's crash on OS X 10.6.6. Yes it does. If asctime returns NULL, you'll segfault. Now, if you ask me why he's encoutering this bug, I'd guess that he's using py3k' test_time.py, which added tests feeding invalid tuples to time.asctime. But it's just a wild guess. Anyway, the code in python 2.7 is buggy, and must be fixed.

> If it's broken, complain to Apple.

Actually, I checked glibc's asctime, and it has the same behaviour. But the point is that asctime can return NULL.

> That still doesn't explain the OP's crash on OS X 10.6.6.

Yes it does. If asctime returns NULL, you'll segfault.
Now, if you ask me why he's encoutering this bug, I'd guess that he's using py3k' test_time.py, which added tests feeding invalid tuples to time.asctime. But it's just a wild guess.

Anyway, the code in python 2.7 is buggy, and must be fixed.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-02-26 11:41:10	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, belopolsky, ned.deily, antlong
2011-02-26 11:41:10	neologix	set	messageid: <1298720470.13.0.824951769799.issue11327@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-02-26 11:41:09	neologix	link	issue11327 messages
2011-02-26 11:41:09	neologix	create