Commit 10485ebd authored by Brett Cannon's avatar Brett Cannon Committed by GitHub

Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047)

parent f7a6ff6f
......@@ -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'``.
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