[Parti-discuss] RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 09:34 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> Really what we need is to get a traceback, to see what the recursive
> call is... but with the new exception handling thingummy (that I added
> to make sure that control-C always works), it's getting called at the
> bottom of a giant call-stack, and when it tries to call the function
> that will print the traceback, it causes another maximum recursion
> error. Sigh.
> 
> I added some code to mainline that *might* succeed at printing a full
> traceback here, but I can't reproduce the problem in testing myself
> (either the problem with the clipboard recursing, or the problem with
> the traceback failing to print).
> 
> So it would be lovely if someone could try to either get a traceback
> with mainline or else just temporarily comment out line 110 of
> wimpiggy/util.py:
>     #sys.excepthook = gtk_main_quit_on_fatal_exception
> and then trigger the clipboard bug.

Oh.  Hrm.  I applied the patch from changeset
4da14cdd106e5852589769b989c5bb6e4a73df7a thinking that was what you
wanted to get the traceback.

I can certainly try commenting out line 110 as well if you like.

b.

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