SystemError while execing bad code

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Jan 21 15:32:26 EST 2004


    Gerrit> exec CodeType(0,0,0,0,"",(),(),(),"","",0,"")
    ...
    Gerrit> But I guess this is a case of "so don't do it" :-)?

    Michael> Definitely.  It's easy enought to crash the interpreter this
    Michael> way (think LOAD_CONST 30000, for just one easy way).

In fact, help(types.CodeType) describes it thusly:

    Create a code object.  Not for the faint of heart.

Should this sort of stuff be published on the Wiki?

Skip




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