trying to make tracebacks reproducible

[Martin Geisler]

Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Since a few days -- sorry for being vague, but this is actually
> part of the problem, I _sometimes_ get tracebacks with
> crew-stable (basically 1.6 I'd say). I cannot reproduce them
> "reliably", i.e. in the following example, I reissued the command
> and got the diff as expected. I can reduce the loaded extensions
> etc. but I'd like to reproduce this reliably first. It seems to
> happen at random - well, in the true sense of the word, if you
> look at the final lines of the traceback.

Heh, nice one :-)

> I'd be grateful for any ideas.

>     mod = _origimport(name, globals, locals)
>   File "/sw/lib/python2.6/random.py", line 59, in <module>
>     LOG4 = _log(4.0)
> ValueError: math domain error

Can you make it fail if you do something like

   while python -c 'import random; print random.LOG4'; do done

The error looks quite strange to me -- there should be nothing fishy
about taking the natural logarithm of 4.0 :-)

-- 
Martin Geisler

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