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| author | Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-03-09 15:58:40 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-03-09 15:58:40 -0800 |
| commit | 10485ebd40669d3e17ab4f477c8c898543bcccd1 (patch) | |
| tree | a23614e989a3562891aa2c8140c895f0bfa9a299 /Doc | |
| parent | f7a6ff6fcab32a53f262ba3f8a072c27afc330d7 (diff) | |
| download | cpython3-10485ebd40669d3e17ab4f477c8c898543bcccd1.tar.gz | |
Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst index 1abc36c04a..ab45cac830 100644 --- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst +++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst @@ -361,6 +361,11 @@ The module defines the following: database has to be created. It defaults to octal ``0o666`` (and will be modified by the prevailing umask). + .. warning:: + It is possible to crash the Python interpreter when loading a database + with a sufficiently large/complex entry due to stack depth limitations in + Python's AST compiler. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 :func:`.open` always creates a new database when the flag has the value ``'n'``. |