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Brian Granger (ellisonbg) wrote : Re: [Bug 241661] Re: unicode('some\xasda string') crashes IPython

Are you using the 32 or 64 bit ubuntu?

Brian

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:42 PM, mARK <email address hidden> wrote:
> i still get a crash using ipython 0.9.1.  as before, i'm using python 2.5.2 under ubuntu 8.04 on a 64-bit quad-core intel processor.
> i have attached the crash report.
>
> ** Attachment added: "IPython_crash_report.txt"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25474306/IPython_crash_report.txt
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> unicode('some\xasda string') crashes IPython
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241661
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> Status in IPython - Enhanced Interactive Python: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> i got this crash (report attached) experimenting with unicode():
>
> In [6]:  unicode('some\xasda string')
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ValueError: invalid \x escape
>
>
> python 2.5.2, ipython 0.8.2, ubuntu 8 on a quad-core 64-bit intel processor.
>

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