Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, 06:52 Chris Angelico, <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Python made the choice to NOT limit
> its integers, and I haven't heard of any non-toy examples where an
> attacker causes you to evaluate 2**2**100 and eats up all your RAM.
>

Happened with an IRC bot of mine, allowed calculations (hey you need to
keep rolling out new features). Someone calculated-crashed the bot by
overstepping that limit (was the day i learnt that feature of Py)

>
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