crashes and would not convert the file.

[swan]

This is the screen output:
$ time python scour.py -i loc.svg -o loc1.svg --enable-comment-stripping --enable-id-stripping --remove-metadata --shorten-ids --strip-xml-prolog
scour 0.26
Copyright Jeff Schiller, Louis Simard, 2010
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scour.py", line 3183, in <module>
    out_string = scourString(in_string, options).encode("UTF-8")
  File "scour.py", line 2952, in scourString
    cleanPolygon(polygon, options)
  File "scour.py", line 2164, in cleanPolygon
    pts = parseListOfPoints(elem.getAttribute('points'))
  File "scour.py", line 2136, in parseListOfPoints
    prev = nums[len(nums)-1]
IndexError: list index out of range

real 0m14.911s
user 0m14.609s
sys 0m0.080s

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced with scour 0.26.
Not reproduced with scour revision 216.

Apparently a duplicate of Bug #804238 "scour fails on some polygons/polylines".