[Python-Dev] Challenge: Please break this! (a.k.a restricted mode revisited) (original) (raw)

Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 01:42:47 EDT 2016

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

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 Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd at phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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