On Nov 21, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Evan Laforge wrote:

> This happens with quixote 2.1 and 2.3, under python 2.3 (but not
> python 2.4):

Here is a reduced way to trigger the same traceback (in python 2.3.5).

s = 'def g():\n f(lambda :None)[:]'
from compiler import pycodegen
x = pycodegen.Module(s, 'bar')
x.compile() # boom

In python 2.4, this does not cause a traceback.