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diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst index b7f610b..a75a6af 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ast.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst @@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees: Parse the source into an AST node. Equivalent to ``compile(source, filename, mode, ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)``. + .. warning:: + It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a + sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations + in Python's AST compiler. + .. function:: literal_eval(node_or_string) @@ -126,6 +131,11 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees: capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex expressions, for example involving operators or indexing. + .. warning:: + It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a + sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations + in Python's AST compiler. + .. versionchanged:: 3.2 Now allows bytes and set literals. |