Re: [SOLVED] Python2.4 on Win32 suddenly started crashing last night

2012-09-13 Thread Tim Chase
On 09/13/12 08:51, MRAB wrote: > I get this: > > Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on > win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> data = file(r'C:\Python24\DLLs\_socket.pyd', 'rb').read() > >>> import md5 > >>> md5.

Re: Python2.4 on Win32 suddenly started crashing last night

2012-09-13 Thread MRAB
On 2012-09-13 14:35, Tim Chase wrote: On 09/13/12 08:12, MRAB wrote: I've just downloaded, installed and tested Python 2.4.4. No crash. This is with Windows XP Pro (32-bit). Could I get the MD5 of your $PYTHONDIR\DLLs\_socket.pyd to see if it matches mine? data = file('_socket.pyd', 'rb').r

Re: Python2.4 on Win32 suddenly started crashing last night

2012-09-13 Thread Tim Chase
On 09/13/12 08:12, MRAB wrote: > I've just downloaded, installed and tested Python 2.4.4. No crash. > > This is with Windows XP Pro (32-bit). Could I get the MD5 of your $PYTHONDIR\DLLs\_socket.pyd to see if it matches mine? >>> data = file('_socket.pyd', 'rb').read() >>> import md5 >>> md5.md5(

Re: Python2.4 on Win32 suddenly started crashing last night

2012-09-13 Thread MRAB
On 13/09/2012 13:42, Tim Chase wrote: I'm not sure if this is some Win32 update that was silently applied by our netadmin, but when I simply "import socket" at the command line, it's crashing (with the "Do you want to send this information to Microsoft" debug/crash dialog). It was working as of

Re: Python2.4 on Win32 suddenly started crashing last night

2012-09-13 Thread Tim Chase
On 09/13/12 07:42, Tim Chase wrote: > It was working as of last night, and to the best of my knowledge, > nothing was changed on the system. It took a while to track it > down, but it came from importing smtplib which in turn imports socket. > > I've tried "import socket" and it crashes, but then

Python2.4 on Win32 suddenly started crashing last night

2012-09-13 Thread Tim Chase
I'm not sure if this is some Win32 update that was silently applied by our netadmin, but when I simply "import socket" at the command line, it's crashing (with the "Do you want to send this information to Microsoft" debug/crash dialog). It was working as of last night, and to the best of my knowle