On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 08:12:30PM -0400, Jonathan Goble wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Oscar Benjamin > <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I haven't looked at your sandbox but for a different approach try this one: > > > > L = [None] > > L.extend(iter(L)) > > > > On my Linux machine that doesn't just crash Python. > > For the record: don't try this if you have unsaved files open on your > computer, because you will lose them. When I typed these two lines > into the Py3.5 interactive prompt, it completely and totally froze > Windows to the point that nothing would respond and I had to resort to > the old trick of holding the power button down for five seconds to > forcibly shut the computer down.
I think this might improve matters: http://bugs.python.org/issue26351 although I must admit I don't understand why the entire OS is effected. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
