On 1/10/06, Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aside from 'dl', what was also pointed out in c.l.py was the crashability of > Python in general, even from pure Python code: > > centurion:~ > python < . > Segmentation fault
This I think ought to be fixed; it's just (I presume) the parser stumbling over extremely invalid input. > [...] > >>> sys.setrecursionlimit(1<<30) > >>> f = lambda f:f(f) > >>> f(f) > Segmentation fault OK, point taken. > There's more, all from Python itself. And sure, "well, don't do that then" > is a perfectly valid response to most of these harebrained tricks, but it > does put a lie to the 'uncrashable python' idea :) I'm not saying it's uncrashable. I'm saying that if you crash it, it's a bug unless proven harebrained. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
