On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Crashing the interpreter from > pure Python code is *absolutely not allowed*, so anything which would > allow that is forbidden.
Except when you willingly shoot yourself in the foot. rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> def f(): sys.setrecursionlimit(sys.getrecursionlimit()+1) or f() ... >>> f() Segmentation fault rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python3 Python 3.5.0a0 (default:1c51f1650c42+, Dec 29 2014, 02:29:06) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> def f(): sys.setrecursionlimit(sys.getrecursionlimit()+1) or f() ... >>> f() Segmentation fault But otherwise, yes. You shouldn't be able to segfault Python with Python code. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
