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r66457 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-09-13 15:30:30 -0500 (Sat, 13 Sep 2008) | 5 lines
Issue #3850: Misc/find_recursionlimit.py was broken.
Reviewed by A.M. Kuchling.
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r66458 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-13 17:54:43 -0500 (Sat, 13 Sep 2008) | 1 line
fix a name issue; note all doc files should be encoded in utf8
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r66459 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-14 11:02:22 -0500 (Sun, 14 Sep 2008) | 1 line
clarify that radix for int is not 'guessed'
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r66465 | skip.montanaro | 2008-09-14 21:03:05 -0500 (Sun, 14 Sep 2008) | 3 lines
Review usage. Fix a mistake in the new-style class definition. Add a
couple new definitions (CPython and virtual machine).
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r66466 | skip.montanaro | 2008-09-14 21:19:53 -0500 (Sun, 14 Sep 2008) | 2 lines
Pick up a few more definitions from the glossary on the wiki.
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r66467 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-14 21:53:23 -0500 (Sun, 14 Sep 2008) | 1 line
mention that object.__init__ no longer takes arbitrary args and kwargs
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r66468 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-15 08:08:32 -0500 (Mon, 15 Sep 2008) | 1 line
Rewrite item a bit
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r66483 | georg.brandl | 2008-09-16 05:17:45 -0500 (Tue, 16 Sep 2008) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
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r66484 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-16 16:20:28 -0500 (Tue, 16 Sep 2008) | 2 lines
be less wordy
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r66485 | georg.brandl | 2008-09-17 03:45:54 -0500 (Wed, 17 Sep 2008) | 2 lines
#3888: add some deprecated modules in whatsnew.
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r66487 | skip.montanaro | 2008-09-17 06:50:36 -0500 (Wed, 17 Sep 2008) | 2 lines
usage
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r66488 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-17 07:57:04 -0500 (Wed, 17 Sep 2008) | 1 line
Markup fixes
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r66489 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-17 07:58:22 -0500 (Wed, 17 Sep 2008) | 2 lines
Remove comment about improvement: pystone is about the same, and
the improvements seem to be difficult to quantify
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r66490 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-17 08:04:53 -0500 (Wed, 17 Sep 2008) | 1 line
Note sqlite3 version; move item
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r66491 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-17 16:54:56 -0500 (Wed, 17 Sep 2008) | 1 line
document compileall command flags
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diff --git a/Misc/find_recursionlimit.py b/Misc/find_recursionlimit.py
index 295e094..2e202be 100644
--- a/Misc/find_recursionlimit.py
+++ b/Misc/find_recursionlimit.py
@@ -1,22 +1,32 @@
#! /usr/bin/env python
-"""Find the maximum recursion limit that prevents core dumps
+"""Find the maximum recursion limit that prevents interpreter termination.
This script finds the maximum safe recursion limit on a particular
platform. If you need to change the recursion limit on your system,
this script will tell you a safe upper bound. To use the new limit,
-call sys.setrecursionlimit.
+call sys.setrecursionlimit().
This module implements several ways to create infinite recursion in
Python. Different implementations end up pushing different numbers of
C stack frames, depending on how many calls through Python's abstract
C API occur.
-After each round of tests, it prints a message
-Limit of NNNN is fine.
+After each round of tests, it prints a message:
+"Limit of NNNN is fine".
-It ends when Python causes a segmentation fault because the limit is
-too high. On platforms like Mac and Windows, it should exit with a
-MemoryError.
+The highest printed value of "NNNN" is therefore the highest potentially
+safe limit for your system (which depends on the OS, architecture, but also
+the compilation flags). Please note that it is practically impossible to
+test all possible recursion paths in the interpreter, so the results of
+this test should not be trusted blindly -- although they give a good hint
+of which values are reasonable.
+
+NOTE: When the C stack space allocated by your system is exceeded due
+to excessive recursion, exact behaviour depends on the platform, although
+the interpreter will always fail in a likely brutal way: either a
+segmentation fault, a MemoryError, or just a silent abort.
+
+NB: A program that does not use __methods__ can set a higher limit.
"""
import sys
@@ -87,7 +97,10 @@
test_func = globals()[test_func_name]
try:
test_func()
- except RuntimeError:
+ # AttributeError can be raised because of the way e.g. PyDict_GetItem()
+ # silences all exceptions and returns NULL, which is usually interpreted
+ # as "missing attribute".
+ except (RuntimeError, AttributeError):
pass
else:
print("Yikes!")