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[Python-Dev] Segmentaion fault with wrongly set PYTHONPATH on Windows

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Oct 23 02:04:56 CEST 2012 
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> For most
> users, it doesn't matter whether an environment variable is set
> incorrectly without their knowledge, or if the kernel is buggy, or if
> the disk is corrupt.  And from Python's point of view, the world as a
> whole no longer makes.
> 
> So it shuts down abnormally.  That's what an abort means, in
> programming as in rocket launches.

Seems to me the only reason to use SIGABRT rather than exit()
with an error code is to provoke a core dump, and that's only
useful if we suspect a bug in Python itself. That's not the
case here -- the cause is clearly something external.

-- 
Greg
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