[Python-Dev] Challenge: Please break this! (a.k.a restricted mode revisited) (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Sun Apr 10 23:50:31 EDT 2016
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:09:19PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 08:12:30PM -0400, Jonathan Goble wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Oscar Benjamin > <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote: > > I haven't looked at your sandbox but for a different approach try this one: > > > > L = [None] > > L.extend(iter(L)) > > > > On my Linux machine that doesn't just crash Python. > > For the record: don't try this if you have unsaved files open on your > computer, because you will lose them. When I typed these two lines > into the Py3.5 interactive prompt, it completely and totally froze > Windows to the point that nothing would respond and I had to resort to > the old trick of holding the power button down for five seconds to > forcibly shut the computer down.
I think this might improve matters: http://bugs.python.org/issue26351 although I must admit I don't understand why the entire OS is effected.
Memory exhaustion?
-- Steve
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