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r75370 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 23:10:07 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line
Move find_recursionlimit.py to Tools/scripts; it is out of place in Misc.
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r75371 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 23:14:37 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line
Add find_recursionlimit.py to README.
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r75372 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-11 23:17:14 +0200 (So, 11 Okt 2009) | 1 line
Update Misc/README.
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diff --git a/Tools/scripts/README b/Tools/scripts/README
index 64fc2bd..b1c167e 100644
--- a/Tools/scripts/README
+++ b/Tools/scripts/README
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
diff.py Print file diffs in context, unified, or ndiff formats
dutree.py Format du(1) output as a tree sorted by size
eptags.py Create Emacs TAGS file for Python modules
-finddiv.py A grep-like tool that looks for division operators.
+find_recursionlimit.py Find the maximum recursion limit on this machine
+finddiv.py A grep-like tool that looks for division operators
findlinksto.py Recursively find symbolic links to a given path prefix
findnocoding.py Find source files which need an encoding declaration
fixcid.py Massive identifier substitution on C source files
@@ -28,8 +29,8 @@
fixnotice.py Fix the copyright notice in source files
fixps.py Fix Python scripts' first line (if #!)
ftpmirror.py FTP mirror script
-google.py Open a webbrowser with Google.
-gprof2html.py Transform gprof(1) output into useful HTML.
+google.py Open a webbrowser with Google
+gprof2html.py Transform gprof(1) output into useful HTML
h2py.py Translate #define's into Python assignments
idle Main program to start IDLE
ifdef.py Remove #if(n)def groups from C sources
@@ -55,9 +56,9 @@
redemo.py Basic regular expression demonstration facility
reindent.py Change .py files to use 4-space indents.
rgrep.py Reverse grep through a file (useful for big logfiles)
-setup.py Install all scripts listed here.
+setup.py Install all scripts listed here
suff.py Sort a list of files by suffix
-svneol.py Sets svn:eol-style on all files in directory.
+svneol.py Sets svn:eol-style on all files in directory
texcheck.py Validate Python LaTeX formatting (Raymond Hettinger)
texi2html.py Convert GNU texinfo files into HTML
treesync.py Synchronize source trees (very ideosyncratic)
diff --git a/Tools/scripts/find_recursionlimit.py b/Tools/scripts/find_recursionlimit.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e202be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tools/scripts/find_recursionlimit.py
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env python
+"""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().
+
+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".
+
+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
+import itertools
+
+class RecursiveBlowup1:
+ def __init__(self):
+ self.__init__()
+
+def test_init():
+ return RecursiveBlowup1()
+
+class RecursiveBlowup2:
+ def __repr__(self):
+ return repr(self)
+
+def test_repr():
+ return repr(RecursiveBlowup2())
+
+class RecursiveBlowup4:
+ def __add__(self, x):
+ return x + self
+
+def test_add():
+ return RecursiveBlowup4() + RecursiveBlowup4()
+
+class RecursiveBlowup5:
+ def __getattr__(self, attr):
+ return getattr(self, attr)
+
+def test_getattr():
+ return RecursiveBlowup5().attr
+
+class RecursiveBlowup6:
+ def __getitem__(self, item):
+ return self[item - 2] + self[item - 1]
+
+def test_getitem():
+ return RecursiveBlowup6()[5]
+
+def test_recurse():
+ return test_recurse()
+
+def test_cpickle(_cache={}):
+ import io
+ try:
+ import _pickle
+ except ImportError:
+ print("cannot import _pickle, skipped!")
+ return
+ l = None
+ for n in itertools.count():
+ try:
+ l = _cache[n]
+ continue # Already tried and it works, let's save some time
+ except KeyError:
+ for i in range(100):
+ l = [l]
+ _pickle.Pickler(io.BytesIO(), protocol=-1).dump(l)
+ _cache[n] = l
+
+def check_limit(n, test_func_name):
+ sys.setrecursionlimit(n)
+ if test_func_name.startswith("test_"):
+ print(test_func_name[5:])
+ else:
+ print(test_func_name)
+ test_func = globals()[test_func_name]
+ try:
+ test_func()
+ # 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!")
+
+limit = 1000
+while 1:
+ check_limit(limit, "test_recurse")
+ check_limit(limit, "test_add")
+ check_limit(limit, "test_repr")
+ check_limit(limit, "test_init")
+ check_limit(limit, "test_getattr")
+ check_limit(limit, "test_getitem")
+ check_limit(limit, "test_cpickle")
+ print("Limit of %d is fine" % limit)
+ limit = limit + 100