Bug: dictionary with >= 8192 keys not initialized correctly

[rwgk at my-deja.com]

Save this to a file dictbug.py:

print 'd1 = {'
for i in xrange(8191):
  print str(i) + ': None,'
print '}'
print 'd2 = {'
for i in xrange(8192):
  print str(i) + ': None,'
print '}'
print 'print len(d1)'
print 'print len(d2)'

Then run:

python dictbug.py > tmp.py
python tmp.py

The output is:

8191
0

I tested this with:
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr 28 2000, 11:50:55) [C] on osf1V5
Python 1.6b1 (#1, Aug  4 2000, 22:34:57) [C] on osf1V5
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Sep 17 1999, 20:15:36)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux-i386

If a dictionary is generated dynamically, e.g. by adding keys
in a loop, there is no problem if there are >= 8192 keys.

If there is an inherent problem with large dictionaries, it would
be good if Python could at least raise an exception, e.g. SystemError.

Ralf


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