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Author vstinner
Recipients pabstersac, vstinner
Date 2016-03-08.10:54:21
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> "construct and print a self-referencing tuple"

I don't understand the use case here. In pure Python, you cannot build a self-referecing tuple!?

Yeah, using the C API or by modifying bytes directly in the memory, you can do that. But if you start to use the C API, you must be careful. The C API is designed for speed, not to prevent bugs.

I don't think that we should fix anything in Python. I don't consider that it's a bug in Python.


> run it and wait around 10 sec for it to happen, but once it starts you will be forced to force it to shut because it will keep on crashing infinitely which is extremely annoying,

Basically, crash.py is a fork-bomb: the program starts itself in a loop. It's not a bug in Python.
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