Wolfgang Maier added the comment: Surprisingly, a much simpler version with just one bytearray seems to run stably (for several minutes at least), but when you wait a while then hit Ctrl-C, you are getting a Segmentation fault:
Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import random >>> buf1 = bytearray() >>> data = b"1234567890123" >>> >>> while True: ... buf1 += data ... l = len(buf1) ... n = random.randrange(1, l-1) ... del buf1[:n] ... ^CSegmentation fault (core dumped) The same code crashes spontaneously (without attempting a keyboard interrupt) when run in IDLE. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23985> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com