[reportlab-users] Crashing when table goes over a page

Robin Becker reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:18:22 +0100


In article <015b01c35b28$c08c1050$3d00800a@gkiddxp2>, Garth Kidd
<garth@deadlybloodyserious.com> writes
>>> Further to my last mail; today's report run doesn't trigger the 
>>> problem, so I've got a new one. :)
>
>> Not sure why this should change 
>
>Sorry, David, I was ambiguous. I'm sure the test case still goes into an
>infinite memory-chew. The report for the next day, with slightly different
>data, didn't hit the problem. That's what I meant by "surprisingly fragile"
>-- minor variations in the data in the table affect whether the problem is
>hit or not. 
>
>Regards,
>Garth.
>
.... I suspect that's due to some floating point error propagation, but
I need some simple encapsulated cases and I think I have lost the
earlier ones. 
-- 
Robin Becker