Commit dedb99ac authored by Ashley Whetter's avatar Ashley Whetter Committed by Serhiy Storchaka

bpo-32758: Warn that ast.parse() and ast.literal_eval() can segfault the...

bpo-32758: Warn that ast.parse() and ast.literal_eval() can segfault the interpreter (GH-5960) (GH-16565)

(cherry picked from commit 7a7f100eb352d08938ee0f5ba59c18f56dc4a7b5)
Co-authored-by: default avatarBrett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>
parent 8eb27cc3
......@@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
Parse the source into an AST node. Equivalent to ``compile(source,
filename, mode, ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
.. warning::
It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a
sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations
in Python's AST compiler.
.. function:: literal_eval(node_or_string)
......@@ -142,6 +147,11 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex expressions, for example involving
operators or indexing.
.. warning::
It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a
sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations
in Python's AST compiler.
.. function:: get_docstring(node, clean=True)
......
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