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Author gregory.p.smith
Recipients gregory.p.smith, tim.peters
Date 2012-02-16.07:57:51
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Using a 32-bit Python 2.6.5 on a Linux system at work we observed the following:

  File "/.../lib/python2.6/tempfile.py", line 349, in mktemp
    name = names.next()
  File "/.../lib/python2.6/tempfile.py", line 134, in next
    letters = [choose(c) for dummy in "123456"]
  File "/.../lib/python2.6/random.py", line 261, in choice
    return seq[int(self.random() * len(seq))]  # raises IndexError if seq is empty
ValueError: cannot convert float NaN to integer

This is rare and hard to reproduce.  The hardware appears to be healthy and this was on a server with ECC.


Some searching reveals that other people have hit this in random.choice in Python 2.7 as well:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktopcouch/+bug/886159

The ubuntu developer seems to think this is related to time.time() returning NaN at some point (I haven't looked into that myself).
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