[Python-Dev] Re: A cute new way to get an infinite loop (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Sep 24 02:31:04 CEST 2004

"Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote in message news:1f7befae040923012645bc07f8 at mail.gmail.com...

x = [1] x.extend(-y for y in x)

Very similar to this old way (2.2 and I presume before):

l=[1] for i in l: l.append(i) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? KeyboardInterrupt len(l) 1623613

but admittedly a bit more baroque ;-)

So, are things like this a programming bug, interpreter bug, or language definition bug? or just a 'gotcha'?

Terry J. Reedy

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