Bob Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I just ran into this behavior with an attempt to pickle a dom tree for an XML document whose nesting level never got deeper than nine child nodes, and indeed it crashed the interpreter. Throwing an exception would be preferable, of course, to silent blowing up Python, but even the exception seems to fly in the face of the documentation for the pickle module [1] which claims (summarizing) that serializing recursive objects using marshal will fail but pickling recursive objects will not fail. I can provide a repro for the XML/DOM pickling case if you think that would be helpful, but that seems redundant since essentially you've already illustrated the problem with your own repro case. Thanks for your work on the solution.
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