bpo-32758: Warn that compile() can crash when compiling to an AST obj… · python/cpython@8eb27cc (original) (raw)

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248	248	character. This is to facilitate detection of incomplete and complete
249	249	statements in the :mod:`code` module.
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	251	+ .. warning::
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	253	+ It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a
	254	+ sufficiently large/complex string when compiling to an AST
	255	+ object due to stack depth limitations in Python's AST compiler.
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251	257	.. versionchanged:: 2.3
252	258	The flags and dont_inherit arguments were added.
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