[issue18447] Pydoc crashes on large contents

New submission from Torim: If invoking pydoc either from a system shell or as a help() method in an interactive Python interpreter, it crashes with SIGSEGV signal at exit. It crashes only with larger documentation contents, smaller do work as expected. Example with numpy module docs: 1. launch

[issue18447] Pydoc crashes on large contents

Ned Deily added the comment: What platform and what versions of python and numpy are you using? I'm not able to reproduce a crash. But there is another report (Issue18356) about such a crash using Ubuntu 13.04. If that's what you are using, we will mark this as a duplicate. -- nosy:

[issue18447] Pydoc crashes on large contents

Torim added the comment: Python 2.7.5 numpy 1.7.1 platform: Linux x86_64 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list U

[issue18447] Pydoc crashes on large contents

Torim added the comment: I'd agree, it looks like a duplicate of http://bugs.python.org/issue18356>Issue18356 . -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18447] Pydoc crashes on large contents

Changes by Ned Deily : -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> help(numpy) causes segfault on exit ___ Python tracker __