>> You can read the source code as well as I can.
> implementation is monumentally convoluted, especially before 2.3.
> Speaking of which, David, which version of Python was "someone"
I was the one who discovered the problem, using Python 2.2.2.
> Did they enable pymalloc?
I don't think I did that.  I don't exactly know what pymalloc is.
> Was it even freeing a Python object at the time?
code".  Am I reading that correctly?