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Author	davidhalter
Recipients	davidhalter
Date	2012-12-27.12:30:01
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Message-id	<1356611402.04.0.240264046705.issue16791@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The following lines run infinitely: b = [1] import itertools b += itertools.chain.from_iterable([c] for c in b) In my opinion this is a bug. Clearly you could say that this is an implementation detail. But afaik this is not documented and very misleading. BTW: In PyPy b would be [1, 1].

The following lines run infinitely:

b = [1]
import itertools
b += itertools.chain.from_iterable([c] for c in b)

In my opinion this is a bug. Clearly you could say that this is an implementation detail. But afaik this is not documented and very misleading.

BTW: In PyPy b would be [1, 1].

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-12-27 12:30:02	davidhalter	set	recipients: + davidhalter
2012-12-27 12:30:02	davidhalter	set	messageid: <1356611402.04.0.240264046705.issue16791@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-12-27 12:30:01	davidhalter	link	issue16791 messages
2012-12-27 12:30:01	davidhalter	create