STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: If I understood correctly, you don't want the value to be truncated if the variable grows between the two calls to confstr(). Which behaviour would you expect? A Python exception?
> but Victor Stinner has expressed concern that a buggy > confstr() could create a near-infinite loop with that patch > applied Yes, I think that two calls to confstr() should be enough. ---------- nosy: +haypo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9647> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com