Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Fixing 3.3 is more likely that 3.4. I can view RuntimeError as a bug less obnoxious than crash, but others may differ. Ultimately, the release managers can decide. This is definitely appropriate for 3.4, so please add tests. If the patch is for 2.7, please do one for 3.3 or 3.4.
For 3.x, d.keys() is not an issue, but d.values() is. >>> d = {} >>> d[1] = d.keys() >>> d {1: dict_keys([1])} >>> d[2] = d.values() >>> d Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while getting the repr of a list ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> test needed versions: +Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18533> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com