A Monday 21 December 2009 18:21:34 Anthony Foglia escrigué: > Francesc Alted wrote: > > A Monday 21 December 2009 16:31:29 escriguéreu: > >>> which is the expected error. In fact, your pytables example works well > >>> for me. That's weird... > >> > >> It was introduced in a version after 2.6.1, but it's definitely there. > >> Here's the bug report I filed, and not only was it confirmed for > >> Python 2.7, 3.1, and 3.2 as well, but it's a symptom of a previously > >> known bug. > >> > >> http://bugs.python.org/issue7542 > >> http://bugs.python.org/issue7455 > >> > >> According to the second link, the bug was introduced in May, after > >> 2.6.1 came out. > >> > >> Luckily for us, these were newly generated files, so we can patch them > >> and change the C++ code to write "0.0" and not "0" or "0.0". But still > >> a parameter might be useful, not only would it give users a way to avoid > >> this bug, but it should save the time it takes PyTables to guess whether > >> an attribute is a pickled object. > > > > Okay, let's address this. But instead of using a parameter, I prefer to > > implement a case for the "0." string. The ticket (and fix) is in: > > > > http://pytables.org/trac/ticket/253 > > > > Of course, this is bad fix in case something would get pickled into a > > "0.", but I *strongly* doubt it. > > > > Thanks for bringing this to my attention! > > But it's not just "0.". It also fails with "0". (Which I didn't > realize till I read the earlier bug report.)
Ah... And "0" and "0." are the only know values that causes the segfault? -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
