[Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Jan 27 10:38:30 CET 2014

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:02:29 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

If we do go this path, then we should backport the full fix (i.e. accepting None to indicate repeating forever), rather than just a partial fix. That is, I'm OK with either not backporting anything at all, or backporting the full change. The only idea I object to is the one of removing the infinite iteration capability without providing a replacement spelling for it.

I would say not backport at all. The security threat is highly theoretical. If someone blindly accepts user values for repeat(), the user value can just as well be a very large positive with similar effects (e.g. 2**31).

Regards

Antoine.

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