Library causes infinite loop

[Danatr]

After a lot of debug I saw the following lines inside exiftool.py:

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    while not _get_buffer_end(output_list, endswith_count).strip().endswith(b_endswith):
        if constants.PLATFORM_WINDOWS:
            # windows does not support select() for anything except sockets
            # https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/select.html
            output_list.append(os.read(fd, block_size))
        else:  # pytest-cov:windows: no cover
            # this does NOT work on windows... and it may not work on other systems... in that case, put more things to use the original code above
            inputready, outputready, exceptready = select.select([fd], [], [])
            for i in inputready:
                if i == fd:
                    output_list.append(os.read(fd, block_size))

    return b"".join(output_list)
I saw that my app crashes because this causes an infinite loop
It happens only after I wrap my python script as an application and only when I use it with double-clicking on it..
Im using mac and exiftool version is 12.77
Any ideas?

[StarGeek]

Exiftool is written in Perl, not Python.  You will have to contact the author of the exiftool.py code.