Ammar Askar added the comment: Just in case anyone is wondering why this happens. The compiler's peephole optimizer will fold constant expressions like
x = 5 + 5 into x = 10 More specifically, this bit here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/0f21fe6155227d11dc02bd3ef3b061de4ecea445/Python/peephole.c#L240 I'd say the current behavior of the compilation taking a long time is fine since at runtime it would run the exact same "2 ** 12345678912345" expression and spend a long time/run out of memory. However I'd say the fact that this happens so silently can be a "gotcha" in some very rare cases. ---------- nosy: +ammar2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27695> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
