Victor:
Python.3 Type System [IHN] - The use of “extended precision” as a term to
express Python’s ability to create and manipulate integers of any size (within
the memory limitations of the computer) is poor since that term is used in
reference to floating point numbers almost exclusively. I
2011/12/13 Armin Rigo
> No, the behavior _is_ undefined. The comment you cited says that it
> cannot crash the Python interpreter; additionally, it makes a
> best-effort attempt at catching such accesses and raising ValueError.
> But I think I can build a strange-looking example where you mutate
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:37, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
>> "When sorting a list using the sort() method, attempting to inspect or
>> mutate the content of the list will result in undefined behaviour."
>
> (...)
> So behaviour is not undefined at all...
No, the behavior _is_ undefined. Th
2011/12/12 Victor Stinner
> "When sorting a list using the sort() method, attempting to inspect or
> mutate the content of the list will result in undefined behaviour."
But is this even true? in listobject.c::listsort(), since 2002,
/* The list is temporarily made empty, so that mutations perfo
IEEE/ISO are working on a draft document about Python vulunerabilities:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/plv/DocLog/300-399/360-thru-379/22-WG23-N-0372/n0372.pdf
(in the context of a larger effort to classify vulnerabilities in all
languages: ISO/IEC TR 24772:2010, available from ISO at no cost a
re-sending with subject :)
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Eric Snow wrote:
> Guido posted this on Google+:
>
>> IEEE/ISO are working on a draft document about Python vulunerabilities:
>> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/plv/DocLog/300-399/360-thru-379/22-WG23-N-0372/n0372.pdf
>> (in the context
