The crash is not nice, but....

The script contains the following line in the definition of status():

    except status() as e:

That will cause unbounded recursion when os.fstat raises an exception, which likely happens here. You probably want to catch OSError (or os.error) instead.


This scriptlet is a smaller reproduction of the problem:

def status():

   try:
      1/0

   except status():
      pass

status()