Python 2.2a1 (#1, Jul 19 2001, 18:18:51)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)] on 
linux2

The intepreter dies hard if you directly evaluate the 
func_code of a function that has a closure. E.g.:

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def func1():
    return lambda: 4 + y

f = func1()
print "Ugly test 1:", eval( f.func_code, {'y': 38} )


def func2(x):
    return lambda: x + y

f = func2(4)
print "Ugly test 2:", eval( f.func_code, {'y': 38} )
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The second eval will cause a core dump on UNIX. The 
offending code is in PyEval_EvalCodeEx() of ceval.c 
line 2466. This loop attempts to match free vars 
against the closure, but the closure is NULL if the 
function is called with eval.

I know this is very broken usage of the interpreter, 
but it should die more cleanly than a core dump ;-)