STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Does it make sense to backport ac317700ce7439e38a8b420218d9a5035bba92ed to > 3.6?
No, async was not a keyword in Python 3.6 on purpose. Making it a keyword can break a lot of code. I confirm that Python 3.6 still crashs with a very high number of "async " prefixes: try attached async_parser_crash.py. Extract of the gdb traceback on a crash: (...) #665 0x0000000000454867 in tok_get (tok=0x7fffff8b98c0, p_start=0x7fffff8b9cb8, p_end=0x7fffff8b9cb0) at Parser/tokenizer.c:1571 #666 0x0000000000454867 in tok_get (tok=0x7fffff8b9d40, p_start=0x7fffff8ba138, p_end=0x7fffff8ba130) at Parser/tokenizer.c:1571 #667 0x0000000000454867 in tok_get (tok=0x7fffff8ba1c0, p_start=0x7fffff8ba5b8, p_end=0x7fffff8ba5b0) at Parser/tokenizer.c:1571 #668 0x0000000000454867 in tok_get (tok=0x7fffff8ba640, p_start=0x7fffff8baa38, p_end=0x7fffff8baa30) at Parser/tokenizer.c:1571 #669 0x0000000000454867 in tok_get (tok=0x7fffff8baac0, p_start=0x7fffff8baeb8, p_end=0x7fffff8baeb0) at Parser/tokenizer.c:1571 #670 0x0000000000454867 in tok_get (tok=0x7fffff8baf40, p_start=0x7fffff8bb338, p_end=0x7fffff8bb330) at Parser/tokenizer.c:1571 #671 0x0000000000454867 in tok_get (tok=0x7fffff8bb3c0, p_start=0x7fffff8bb7b8, p_end=0x7fffff8bb7b0) at Parser/tokenizer.c:1571 (...) It looks like a stack overflow. The tokenizer may fail earlier on "async async ". ---------- nosy: +haypo Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47237/async_parser_crash.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31852> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com