How to crash Python in 1 easy step (python 2.2.2)

[Paul Miller]

I'm not sure if this is a python bug or a bug in an associated
library, and I'm not even sure how to correctly report it, but here is
Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

This is on a RedHat 9.0 system running on an Athlon 600. Basically
everything about the system is standard except for what's been updated
by RedHat itself. If anyone who has the time and ability to track
down this bug needs more information, please email me.

[Irmen de Jong]

Paul Miller wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a python bug or a bug in an associated
library, and I'm not even sure how to correctly report it, but here is
Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

This is on a RedHat 9.0 system running on an Athlon 600. Basically
everything about the system is standard except for what's been updated
by RedHat itself. If anyone who has the time and ability to track
down this bug needs more information, please email me.

I doubt it is a problem in Python, it works nicely on both my
windows and my linux machines (python 2.2.3).

Just a gut feeling: reinstall/upgrade your readline library.....

--Irmen

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Paul Miller wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a python bug or a bug in an associated
library, and I'm not even sure how to correctly report it, but here is
Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

This is on a RedHat 9.0 system running on an Athlon 600. Basically
everything about the system is standard except for what's been updated
by RedHat itself. If anyone who has the time and ability to track
down this bug needs more information, please email me.

No problem here with Python 2.2.x
(where x = cantRememberAnd ToLazyToCheckBu tThinkIts1)

Bruno

[Jeff Epler]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:44:41AM -0700, Paul Miller wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a python bug or a bug in an associated
library, and I'm not even sure how to correctly report it, but here is

Doesn't happen here. What terminal (xterm, kterm, gnome-terminal,
console?) and what LANG is set in your environment?

If you run 'od -c' at the shell, then hit ctrl-shift-enter then ctrl-d,
what does it show? I'd expect to see something very much like this:
$ od -c

0000000 \n
0000001
that is, even with the modifier keys, the program only sees a normal
newline character.

What happens if you type ctrl-shift-enter to another readline-linked
program (for instance 'bc', an infix calculator)? Do you get the same
crash?

Does the behavior change if you run 'cat | python' and then press
ctrl-shift-enter? This will avoid importing readline (and another
side-effect is to suppress the normal ">>>" prompt of the interative
interpreter)

Jeff

[Cliff Wells]

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 10:44, Paul Miller wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a python bug or a bug in an associated
library, and I'm not even sure how to correctly report it, but here is
Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

This is on a RedHat 9.0 system running on an Athlon 600.

Redhat 9, Athlon XP 1700+. Python 2.2.2-26, readline 4.3-5

Not a problem.

Regards,
Cliff

--
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-This Mortal Coil

[Ben Finney]

On 13 Jul 2003 10:44:41 -0700, Paul Miller wrote:

Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

Is this in an xterm, in some other terminal emulator, in a console
session? I'm guessing you'll see different behaviour if you try all
three of those, which will help narrow down the problem.

Not that a segfault (assuming that's what you mean by "crash") isn't a
bug -- any event that doesn't make the system hardware unreliable should
be handled without a segfault.

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[Gavrie Philipson]

pw*******@adelp hia.net (Paul Miller) wrote in message news:<2e******* *************** ****@posting.go ogle.com>...

I'm not sure if this is a python bug or a bug in an associated
library, and I'm not even sure how to correctly report it, but here is
Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

This is on a RedHat 9.0 system running on an Athlon 600. Basically
everything about the system is standard except for what's been updated
by RedHat itself. If anyone who has the time and ability to track
down this bug needs more information, please email me.

I'm seeing the same effect on RH9, using KDE's "konsole" terminal
emulator.
When pressing Ctrl-Shift-Enter, it actually sends the ^[OM characters
(Escape, O, M).
Manually sending the key sequence Esc-O-something also crashes Python.

Why this happens is still a good question...

[Sybren Stuvel]

Paul Miller enlightened us with:

Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

sybren@sybren:s ybren$ python
Python 2.2.3+ (#1, Jul 5 2003, 11:04:18)
[GCC 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.

import sys
sys.stdin.readl ine()
'\n'

As you can see, my python handles it just fine. I'm running Debian
Unstable on my box. Guess it isn't so unstable after all ;-) I started
python from an xterm managed by Fluxbox.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

[Michael Hudson]

ga*****@yahoo.c om (Gavrie Philipson) writes:

pw*******@adelp hia.net (Paul Miller) wrote in message news:<2e******* *************** ****@posting.go ogle.com>...

I'm not sure if this is a python bug or a bug in an associated
library, and I'm not even sure how to correctly report it, but here is
Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

This is on a RedHat 9.0 system running on an Athlon 600. Basically
everything about the system is standard except for what's been updated
by RedHat itself. If anyone who has the time and ability to track
down this bug needs more information, please email me.

I'm seeing the same effect on RH9, using KDE's "konsole" terminal
emulator.
When pressing Ctrl-Shift-Enter, it actually sends the ^[OM characters
(Escape, O, M).
Manually sending the key sequence Esc-O-something also crashes Python.

Why this happens is still a good question...

This has almost surely got to be a readline problem. Does it happen
in (e.g.) gdb?

Cheers,
mwh

PS: pressing ctrl-\ also crashes Python...
PPS: unless you've been mucking with stty -- 'stty quit i' makes for
an abbreviated python programming experience :-)

--
well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier
to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems
in C, so you don't. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp

[Cliff Wells]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 03:17, Gavrie Philipson wrote:

pw*******@adelp hia.net (Paul Miller) wrote in message news:<2e******* *************** ****@posting.go ogle.com>...

I'm not sure if this is a python bug or a bug in an associated
library, and I'm not even sure how to correctly report it, but here is
Anytime python is accepting keyboard input, whether it's with
raw_input, or sitting on the command line waiting for the user to type
code, you can crash python by holding ctrl+shift and then pressing
enter.

This is on a RedHat 9.0 system running on an Athlon 600. Basically
everything about the system is standard except for what's been updated
by RedHat itself. If anyone who has the time and ability to track
down this bug needs more information, please email me.

I'm seeing the same effect on RH9, using KDE's "konsole" terminal
emulator.
When pressing Ctrl-Shift-Enter, it actually sends the ^[OM characters
(Escape, O, M).
Manually sending the key sequence Esc-O-something also crashes Python.

Yep, here (RH9, Py2.2.2) it is as well under gnome-terminal (sending
Esc-O-M). I'm amazed no one saw it sooner <wink>.

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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