Ian Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Andrew Robinson wrote:
Don't bother to fix the bug; allow Python to crash with a subtle bug that often take weeks to track
down by the very small minority doing strange things (Equivalent to the "monkey patch"
syndrome of D'Aprano; BTW: The longer the bug is left unfixed, the more people will invent
"uses" for it )
It's been 6 years already. AFAIK nobody has invented any uses that
are actually at risk of invoking the GC bug.
The bug is not that slice allows non-numbers, but that slice objects aren't tracked by gc; I'm not
seeing an issue with not fixing the bug.
~Ethan~
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