Unable to convert huge mpz to string about gmpy HOT 5 CLOSED

Can't reproduce on the equipment at my disposal (which is 32-bit, not 64-bit) 
and more modern releases of 
gmpy (1.02 and up).  Passing to Case who, I believe, does have 64-bit machines 
to try this out; most likely this is 
a bug fixed in some release after 1.01 and the remedy will be for you to 
upgrade your gmpy installation.

should be s = str(p) not s = str(s) that causes the problem.

also, I have just downloaded the gmpy-1.03 version from the downloads page and 
the
error is reproduced.

sam@sam-laptop:~/gentoo/gmpy-1.03$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:31:22) 
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from gmpy import *
>>> e = mpz(8)
>>> p = e**(e**e)
>>> s = str(p)
Segmentation fault
sam@sam-laptop:~/gentoo/gmpy-1.03$ 

I've fixed this bug in svn. The fix may cause a slight slowdown for mpz->string
conversions. If the slowdown is noticeable, I'll work on a more sophisticate 
patch.

casevh

Fixed by changing memory allocation for temporary objects.

Thanks for the bug report.

Case