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authorThomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>2017-05-23 04:27:52 +0100
committerNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2017-05-23 13:27:52 +1000
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bpo-25532: Protect against infinite loops in inspect.unwrap() (#1717)
Some objects (like test mocks) auto-generate new objects on attribute access, which can lead to an infinite loop in inspect.unwrap(). Ensuring references are retained to otherwise temporary objects and capping the size of the memo dict turns this case into a conventional exception instead.
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- Issue #29581: ABCMeta.__new__ now accepts ``**kwargs``, allowing abstract base
classes to use keyword parameters in __init_subclass__. Patch by Nate Soares.
+- Issue #25532: inspect.unwrap() will now only try to unwrap an object
+ sys.getrecursionlimit() times, to protect against objects which create a new
+ object on every attribute access.
+
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