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| author | Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-03-09 21:13:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-03-09 21:13:32 (GMT) |
| commit | f7a6ff6fcab32a53f262ba3f8a072c27afc330d7 (patch) | |
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Warn that compile() can crash when compiling to an AST object (GH-6043)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index bfb813c..3ddd280 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -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. |