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Author rhettinger
Recipients aaron315, brian.curtin, giampaolo.rodola, neologix, petri.lehtinen, rhettinger, skrah
Date 2012-03-20.19:12:50
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Message-id <1332270771.38.0.825728506997.issue14370@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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This a feature, not a bug.  Lists are allowed to mutate during iteration and there are valid use cases for doing so (adding pending tasks, etc.)  


# Demonstrate list mutation during iteration
# Infinite loop that overflows memory
s = [None]
for x in s:
   s.append(x)
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2012-03-20 19:12:51rhettingersetrecipients: + rhettinger, giampaolo.rodola, brian.curtin, skrah, neologix, petri.lehtinen, aaron315
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