Ned Deily added the comment:
This is a duplicate of Issue18458. The problem is due to an incompatible update
to the GNU readline compatibility layer of the editline shared library
(libedit) in OS X 10.9. The fix for this will be in the upcoming Python 2.7.6
and 3.3.3 maintenance releases, exp
New submission from Matt Dodge:
Upgraded to OS X Mavericks (not sure if this is what caused it or not).
Running Python 2.7.5 (v2.7.5:ab05e7dd2788, May 13 2013, 13:18:45)
Python will seg fault when trying to evaluate the expression bool('False')
To reproduce, from terminal, launch Python, enter