Yes, this is the type of thing we've been struggling with for years.
There used to be way more of these. I can't guarantee it'll be fixed
with priority (it's mostly of the "then don't do that" type) but
please do file a bug so someone with inclination can fix it. The same
happens for deeply recursi
Just noticed this and wondered if it came under the Python should never
crash mantra. Should sys.getrecursionlimit() perhaps be taken into
account somewhere?
>>> D = {'a': None}
>>> for i in xrange(15):
... D = {'a': D}
...
>>> D
{'a': {'a': {'a': {'a': {'a': {'a':