Thanks Frank.  FYI here's my os info in case it's helpful:

Linux yoda 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Frank Wierzbicki <report@bugs.jython.org> wrote:

Frank Wierzbicki <fwierzbicki@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

oops, scratch that, I failed to port the script over to my system well
enough.  I was able to reproduce the hang.

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