[Python-Dev] Discussion on Lib/test/crashers/ (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Jul 10 22:15:30 CEST 2006

On 7/10/06, Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at ewtllc.com> wrote:

Brett Cannon wrote: > As I am sure some have noticed, as part of my dissertation I have been > trying to fix the various crashers. Nice project. One quick thought: Any crasher that relies on gc.getreferrers() should not be considered a bug.

Right. That is on the list of crashers I am ignoring.

The codebase should not be convoluted,

complexified, obfucated, altered, touched, or slowed down just prevent perverse, sadistic safe-cracking using this tool. The docs are clear on this subject:

"Care must be taken when using objeccts returned by getreferrers() becasue some of them could still be under construction and hence in a temporarily invalid state. Avoid using getreferrers() for any purpose other than debugging."

And I am trying to make sure all the fixes are not superfluous but fix actual issues in the code and behaviour of Python.

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