Make identifiers str (not str8) objects throughout.

This affects the parser, various object implementations,
and all places that put identifiers into C string literals.

In testing, a number of crashes occurred as code would
fail when the recursion limit was reached (such as the
Unicode interning dictionary having key/value pairs where
key is not value). To solve these, I added an overflowed
flag, which allows for 50 more recursions after the
limit was reached and the exception was raised, and
a recursion_critical flag, which indicates that recursion
absolutely must be allowed, i.e. that a certain call
must not cause a stack overflow exception.

There are still some places where both str and str8 are
accepted as identifiers; these should eventually be
removed.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Python/Python-ast.c b/Python/Python-ast.c
index 791b32d..18c2eb5 100644
--- a/Python/Python-ast.c
+++ b/Python/Python-ast.c
@@ -3280,3 +3280,5 @@ PyObject* PyAST_mod2obj(mod_ty t)
     init_types();
     return ast2obj_mod(t);
 }
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