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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2007-09-10 21:38:27 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2007-09-10 21:38:27 (GMT)
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Fix a possible segfault from recursing too deep to get the repr of a list.
Closes issue #1096.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested
+ list by using the recursion counter.
+
- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger recursion
depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static RuntimeError