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No, the behavior \_is\_ undefined. �The comment you cited says that it
cannot crash the Python interpreter; additionally, it makes a
best-effort attempt at catching such accesses and raising ValueError.
But I think I can build a strange-looking example where you mutate a
list during sorting and don't get a ValueError (although admittedly it
needs a lot of hacking to do that nowadays, e.g. multiple threads).