issue 2045: Infinite recursion when printing a subclass of defaultdict,

if default_factory is set to a bound method.

Backport of r60663.

3 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_defaultdict.py b/Lib/test/test_defaultdict.py
index 08be005b42..5724fd0460 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_defaultdict.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_defaultdict.py
@@ -141,6 +141,29 @@ class TestDefaultDict(unittest.TestCase):
         else:
             self.fail("expected KeyError")
 
+    def test_recursive_repr(self):
+        # Issue2045: stack overflow when default_factory is a bound method
+        class sub(defaultdict):
+            def __init__(self):
+                self.default_factory = self._factory
+            def _factory(self):
+                return []
+        d = sub()
+        self.assert_(repr(d).startswith(
+            "defaultdict(<bound method sub._factory of defaultdict(..."))
+
+        # NOTE: printing a subclass of a builtin type does not call its
+        # tp_print slot. So this part is essentially the same test as above.
+        tfn = tempfile.mktemp()
+        try:
+            f = open(tfn, "w+")
+            try:
+                print >>f, d
+            finally:
+                f.close()
+        finally:
+            os.remove(tfn)
+
 
 def test_main():
     test_support.run_unittest(TestDefaultDict)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e3a4aceece..cf73bcae07 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.5.2c1?
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
+  collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.
+
 - Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler,
   even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when 
   the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the
diff --git a/Modules/collectionsmodule.c b/Modules/collectionsmodule.c
index 9d128fc959..dd3c0b7d8f 100644
--- a/Modules/collectionsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/collectionsmodule.c
@@ -1217,7 +1217,17 @@ defdict_repr(defdictobject *dd)
 	if (dd->default_factory == NULL)
 		defrepr = PyString_FromString("None");
 	else
-		defrepr = PyObject_Repr(dd->default_factory);
+	{
+		int status = Py_ReprEnter(dd->default_factory);
+		if (status != 0) {
+			if (status < 0)
+				return NULL;
+			defrepr = PyString_FromString("...");
+		}
+		else
+			defrepr = PyObject_Repr(dd->default_factory);
+		Py_ReprLeave(dd->default_factory);
+	}
 	if (defrepr == NULL) {
 		Py_DECREF(baserepr);
 		return NULL;