[New-bugs-announce] [issue24620] Segfault with nonsensical random state

[Stefan Krah]

New submission from Stefan Krah:

While trying to find a possible cause for #24546, I came across this
glitch:

Python 3.6.0a0 (default:02b81a82a57d, Jul 12 2015, 20:33:44) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux
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>>> import random
>>> s = (3, (999999999999999,)*625, None)
>>> random.setstate(s)
>>> random.choice([1,2,3,4,5])
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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messages: 246661
nosy: mark.dickinson, rhettinger, skrah
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Segfault with nonsensical random state

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