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| author | Ashley Whetter <AWhetter@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-10-18 01:00:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2019-10-18 11:00:03 +0300 |
| commit | 8eb27cc35489848596d9fb4b1c91fac00ae75d21 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a749126e2fd7fc9f31c85a3ce4572238547e54f | |
| parent | bef8d9acda7a4b9203e55371bb7a7da1c4a7fcbe (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-8eb27cc35489848596d9fb4b1c91fac00ae75d21.tar.gz | |
bpo-32758: Warn that compile() can crash when compiling to an AST object (GH-6043) (GH-16566)
(cherry picked from commit f7a6ff6fcab32a53f262ba3f8a072c27afc330d7)
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 8701f9d8ff..23f34a3de0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -248,6 +248,12 @@ section. character. This is to facilitate detection of incomplete and complete statements in the :mod:`code` module. + .. warning:: + + It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a + sufficiently large/complex string when compiling to an AST + object due to stack depth limitations in Python's AST compiler. + .. versionchanged:: 2.3 The *flags* and *dont_inherit* arguments were added. |