Crashing with Vista + wxPython 2.8.9.x + Python 2.6

Just a word of warning for anybody thinking of upgrading to the latest
versions of wxPython and Python on Vista...

...you might want to wait a bit, or be prepared for some code twiddling.
After installing Python 2.6 + wxPython 2.8.9.2 I found that most of the
PythonCard sample applications would crash after a few seconds. Then
some of the wxPython demos started failing too. 

At first I thought it might be because I'm running Vista via VirtualBox
on my Mac. Then I discovered via the wxPython mailing list:

<http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/10082>

and the likely cause:

<http://www.tejerodgers.com/snippets/2009/why-wxpython-crashes-python-26/
>

I'm running 32-bit and not wxPython 2.8.9.1 so it doesn't quite
match the bugtracker case, but having uninstalled everything and gone
with Python 2.5 instead for the time being everything is now working.

-- 
Neil Hughes

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