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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-10-06 17:04:12 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-10-06 17:04:12 (GMT)
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Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge tuples or lists.
This introduces a small private API for this common pattern. The issue has been discovered thanks to Martin's huge-mem buildbot.
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
+ tuples or lists.
+
- PEP 393: flexible string representation. Thanks to Torsten Becker for the
initial implementation, and Victor Stinner for various bug fixes.