Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
As for the possibility of rejecting the request: Python should
absolutely not do so. If the user/applications wants to compute the
result, and the system has enough virtual memory, then Python should
provide the result.
If you want to limit
Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
The issue is that you're creating a string of 2GB. It's expectable that
it'll use a lot of resources.
Test this, for example:
>>> a = "." * 2147483647
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nosy: +facundobatista
resolution: -> invalid
status: open -> closed
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New submission from mgogoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Not sure if this is a bug, however the following string functions when
called with very big numbers as the padding arguments consume great
system resources. My estimation is that it would help to exist a limit
on what can be specified as width.
