From 10485ebd40669d3e17ab4f477c8c898543bcccd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brett Cannon Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:58:40 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047) --- Doc/library/dbm.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/dbm.rst b/Doc/library/dbm.rst index 1abc36c04a..ab45cac830 100644 --- a/Doc/library/dbm.rst +++ b/Doc/library/dbm.rst @@ -361,6 +361,11 @@ The module defines the following: database has to be created. It defaults to octal ``0o666`` (and will be modified by the prevailing umask). + .. warning:: + It is possible to crash the Python interpreter when loading a database + with a sufficiently large/complex entry due to stack depth limitations in + Python's AST compiler. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 :func:`.open` always creates a new database when the flag has the value ``'n'``. -- 2.40.0