commit f2fffd41b42d88fe36b483852ae33d5a415b7082
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Fri Mar 09 12:35:42 2018 -0800
committer Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com> Fri Mar 09 12:35:42 2018 -0800
tree 8f9f9b1f8cfea14d0b5cfdd14ea3c9f3cc75da24
parent 3c39beb65d003b209a98a79af4aaf94ba16d0d29

bpo-32758: Warn that ast.parse() and ast.literal_eval() can segfault the interpreter (GH-5960) (GH-6041)

(cherry picked from commit 7a7f100eb352d08938ee0f5ba59c18f56dc4a7b5)

Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>

Doc/library/ast.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index b7f610b..a75a6af 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@
    Parse the source into an AST node.  Equivalent to ``compile(source,
    filename, mode, ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
 
+   .. warning::
+      It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a
+      sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations
+      in Python's AST compiler.
+
 
 .. function:: literal_eval(node_or_string)
 
@@ -126,6 +131,11 @@
    capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex expressions, for example involving
    operators or indexing.
 
+   .. warning::
+      It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a
+      sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations
+      in Python's AST compiler.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.2
       Now allows bytes and set literals.