From f7a6ff6fcab32a53f262ba3f8a072c27afc330d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brett Cannon Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 13:13:32 -0800 Subject: Warn that compile() can crash when compiling to an AST object (GH-6043) --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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. -- cgit v0.12