Message6422

A python program with the following fragment...

try:
    import psyco            # a specializing [runtime] compiler
    have_psyco = True       # for 32-bit compilations of Python
    print 'psyco enabled'
except:
    have_psyco = False

should have failed and have_psyco set to False.  It wasn't.  Instead a module named "psyco" was created with a single element "__name__" set to "psyco".  Later a conditioned dependency based on have_psyco being True caused a crash.  

The same program ran just fine after the offending psyco-based statements were commented out.