[Python-checkins] Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047) (GH-6048)
Brett Cannon
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Fri Mar 9 19:12:57 EST 2018
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6826589415408e68e7872bfde30abbdff17772b2
commit: 6826589415408e68e7872bfde30abbdff17772b2
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Brett Cannon <brettcannon at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2018-03-09T16:12:54-08:00
summary:
Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047) (GH-6048)
(cherry picked from commit 10485ebd40669d3e17ab4f477c8c898543bcccd1)
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brettcannon at users.noreply.github.com>
files:
M Doc/library/dbm.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst
index 32e80b2cf6ed..0150f5d5c6e8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst
@@ -347,6 +347,11 @@ The module defines the following:
database has to be created. It defaults to octal ``0o666`` (and will be modified
by the prevailing umask).
+ .. warning::
+ It is possible to crash the Python interpreter when loading a database
+ with a sufficiently large/complex entry due to stack depth limitations in
+ Python's AST compiler.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.5
:func:`.open` always creates a new database when the flag has the value
``'n'``.
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