Michael Foord wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On 7/11/07, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Christian Heimes schrieb: >>> >>>> By the way the ctypes unit tests are causing a segfault on my machine: >>>> test_ctypes >>>> Warning: could not import ctypes.test.test_numbers: unpack requires a >>>> string argument of length 1 >>>> Segmentation fault >>>> >>>> Ubunutu 7.04 on i386 machine with an Intel P3. >>>> >>> I can reproduce this. ctypes.test.test_numbers is easy to fix, but there >>> are other severe problems with ctypes. >>> >>> I would love to look into these, but I prefer debugging on Windows. >>> However, the windows build does not work because the _fileio builtin >>> module is missing from config.c. Again, this is not so easy to fix, >>> because the ftruncate function does not exist on Windows. >>> >> I don't have a Windows box; contributions to fix this situation are welcome. >> > > You would accept a donated Windows box ? (1/2 ;-) > Please don't force Guido to spend valuable development time climbing *that* learning curve!
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