mirrors/cpython
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/python/cpython.git synced 2025-10-02 05:12:23 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions 8

Warn that compile() can crash when compiling to an AST object (GH-6043) (GH-6045)

Browse source 
(cherry picked from commit f7a6ff6fca)

Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>
This commit is contained in:
Miss Islington (bot) 2018-03-09 13:40:26 -08:00 • committed by Brett Cannon
parent f2fffd41b4
commit fc5e0956fe
1 changed files with 6 additions and 0 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

6
Doc/library/functions.rst
View file

@ -274,6 +274,12 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
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:: 3.2
Allowed use of Windows and Mac newlines. Also input in ``'exec'`` mode
does not have to end in a newline anymore. Added the *optimize* parameter.