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WindowsError: exception: stack overflow

See original GitHub issue

I’m using Conda’s Python:

Python 2.7.13 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, May 11 2017, 13:17:26) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

C:\Users\Ismael\pyjulia (master)                                                                                                              
λ C:\Users\Ismael\.julia\v0.6\Conda\deps\usr\python -m unittest discover                                                                      
JULIA_HOME = C:\Users\Ismael\AppData\Local\Julia-0.6.0\bin,  libjulia_path = C:\Users\Ismael\AppData\Local\Julia-0.6.0\bin\libjulia.dll       
calling jl_init_with_image(C:\Users\Ismael\AppData\Local\Julia-0.6.0\bin, C:\Users\Ismael\AppData\Local\Julia-0.6.0\lib\julia\sys.dll)        
E                                                                                                                                             
======================================================================                                                                        
ERROR: test.test_core (unittest.loader.ModuleImportFailure)                                                                                   
----------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                        
ImportError: Failed to import test module: test.test_core                                                                                     
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                            
  File "C:\Users\Ismael\.julia\v0.6\Conda\deps\usr\lib\unittest\loader.py", line 254, in _find_tests                                          
    module = self._get_module_from_name(name)                                                                                                 
  File "C:\Users\Ismael\.julia\v0.6\Conda\deps\usr\lib\unittest\loader.py", line 232, in _get_module_from_name                                
    __import__(name)                                                                                                                          
  File "C:\Users\Ismael\pyjulia\test\test_core.py", line 12, in <module>                                                                      
    julia = Julia(jl_runtime_path=os.getenv("JULIA_EXE"), debug=True)                                                                         
  File "C:\Users\Ismael\pyjulia\julia\core.py", line 304, in __init__                                                                         
    self.api.jl_init_with_image(jl_init_path, image_file.encode("utf-8"))                                                                     
WindowsError: exception: stack overflow                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                              
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Ran 1 test in 0.001s                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                              
FAILED (errors=1)                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                              
C:\Users\Ismael\pyjulia (master)                                                                                                              
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Kenocommented, Aug 12, 2017

Yes, this is known, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22866. The currently known workaround on 0.6 is to increase python’s stack size. I wonder whether we can detect this situation and give a better error message.

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youmezxcommented, Sep 7, 2017

`import julia j= julia.Julia(debug =True) JULIA_HOME = C:\Users\youme\AppData\Local\Julia-0.6.0\bin, libjulia_path = C:\Users\youme\AppData\Local\Julia-0.6.0\bin\libjulia.dll calling jl_init_with_image(C:\ProgramData\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\julia-0.1.1-py2.7.egg\julia\fake-julia, C:\Users\youme\AppData\Local\Julia-0.6.0\lib\julia\sys.dll) Traceback (most recent call last):

File “”, line 1, in j = julia.Julia(debug =True)

File “C:\ProgramData\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\julia-0.1.1-py2.7.egg\julia\core.py”, line 304, in init self.api.jl_init_with_image(jl_init_path, image_file.encode(“utf-8”))

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