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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:09:19PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
\> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 08:12:30PM -0400, Jonathan Goble wrote:
\> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Oscar Benjamin
\> > <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> wrote:
\> > > I haven't looked at your sandbox but for a different approach try this one:
\> > >
\> > > L = \[None\]
\> > > L.extend(iter(L))
\> > >
\> > > On my Linux machine that doesn't just crash Python.
\> >
\> > For the record: don't try this if you have unsaved files open on your
\> > computer, because you will lose them. When I typed these two lines
\> > into the Py3.5 interactive prompt, it completely and totally froze
\> > Windows to the point that nothing would respond and I had to resort to
\> > the old trick of holding the power button down for five seconds to
\> > forcibly shut the computer down.
\>
\>
\> I think this might improve matters:
\>
\> http://bugs.python.org/issue26351
\>
\> although I must admit I don't understand why the entire OS is effected.

Memory exhaustion?

\> --
\> Steve

Oleg.
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