Too Many if Statements?

[nnorwitz at gmail.com]

Juho Schultz wrote:
>
> However, the following gives a SystemError with only 2500 elif's.

SystemErrors should never occur, if you see one it's a bug.

[valid program which demonstrates a python bug]

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "iftest.py", line 10, in ?
>      exec prog
> SystemError: com_backpatch: offset too large
>
> I tried this with Python 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 (Linux) and both fail.

Yup, 2.4 fails too.  Unfortunately, this looks like a bugger to fix in
2.4.  So I doubt it will be fixed for old versions of python.  The good
news is that it's fixed for 2.5.

n