SystemError while execing bad code

[Michael Hudson]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

>     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?

I don't understand what you're suggesting here.

Cheers,
mwh

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