Hi guys,
could anyone tell me what segmentation fault means?
Thx
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Jump to PostShould be a thing of the past. In earlier years of computing, when 16bit operating systems were king, memory used to be addressed in segments/chunks of 64k (2**16). If you crossed one of those segments, you got a fault message. Python's memory manager shouldn't give you any problems like that! …
Jump to PostIt's the error that gets thrown in C (and other languages with direct memory access) when you try to write to or read from a piece of memory you don't own.
As vega said, you should never see this error in Python, since Python doesn't allow you direct access …
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