Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Bryan Olson" wrote:
>
>>I made a script with 100,000 if's, (code below) and it appears
>>to work on a couple systems, including Python 2.4.2 on Win32-XP.
>>So at first cut, it doesn't seem to be just the if-count that
>>triggers the bug.
>
> The OP did not specify whether all of his if-tests were sequential as in
> your test or if some were nested. I vaguely remember there being an indent
> limit (40??).
A 40-level indent limit is reasonable (I may get around to looking
it up and/or testing it), but if we believe 'slogging' and Alan, what
we have here is an outright Python bug. They did not report a message
about static code being too deeply nested, nor about dynamic calls
exceeding a recursion limit. They reported incorrect behavior.
My favorite joke goes:
Patient: Doctor...doctor -- it hurts when I do that! (With 'that'
being some movement that is unusual but normally innocuous.)
Doctor: Don't do that.
Ah...cracks me up. Funny on so many levels.
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