Alexandre Vassalotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Bob Kline wrote: > 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.
Pickling recursive data-structure should not crash the interpreter. Please open a new issue and don't forget to provide an example case. > 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. The section of documentation, you are referring to, uses the term "recursive object" to means an object which contains a reference to itself. Anyway, the documentation [1] states clearly: Trying to pickle a highly recursive data structure may exceed the maximum recursion depth, a RuntimeError will be raised in this case. You can carefully raise this limit with sys.setrecursionlimit(). [1]: http://docs.python.org/lib/node317.html ---------- nosy: +alexandre.vassalotti type: crash -> feature request __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2480> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
