[Python-Dev] strop vs. string (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 28 May 2001 12:28:41 +1200 (NZST)

Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>

"badly" is overstating the problem. It caches a pointer when it shouldn't. This doesn't work well

But "doesn't work well" means "can crash the interpreter". I don't think "badly" is an overstatement here...

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