I've seen this with both JDK 1.5 beta 1 and beta 2 now. And I don't know how to get around it. :(
[weiqi@gao]$ java -versionjava version "1.5.0-beta2"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-beta2-b51)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-beta2-b51, mixed mode, sharing)
[weiqi@gao]$ jythonException in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: Duplicated LocalVariableTable
attribute entry for 'itmp' in class file org/python/core/PyObject
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:605)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:290)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:279)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:236)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:303)