New submission from Ram Rachum:
I had a code that would freeze, and after debugging I realized that a bug in my
code caused `shlex.split(None)` to be called, which puts Python in an infinite
loop.
We probably want to do an `if not isinstance(s, ...): raise TypeError('Bla
bla')` at the start of the `shlex` function, or maybe at `shlex.__init__`, or
maybe both.
What bothers me though, is that it seems that shlex can accept both a string
and a stream, so we should allow both of these and not others. Now, I don't
know how to check whether it's a proper stream. Would `isinstance(s,
io.IOBase)` be good enough? Will it catch all of the streams that people might
use in `shlex.split`?
(Also, I recently proposed something related in python-ideas:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/python-ideas/stream%7Csort:relevance/python-ideas/uYlnnH52VEA/PSHkQRtaBwAJ
)
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 272847
nosy: cool-RR
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: `shlex.split(None)` causes infinite loop
type: crash
versions: Python 3.6
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