On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:53 PM, <wisecrac...@tesco.net> wrote: > Talking of nefarious usage... > > I wonder what this would do left unchecked on a current machine and current > Python install... > > ### > > global somestring > somestring = " " > > while 1: > #print somestring > somestring = somestring + " " > > ###
It'd take a while, but eventually bomb with MemoryError. If instead you double the string's length with "somestring=somestring+somestring", it'll bomb a lot quicker. I know because I tried it. We have an isolation environment in which we'll be allowing our clients to provide Python scripts - which means we have to be sure it'll all be safe. BTW, the point at which it bombs is defined by ulimit/rlimit, unless you fiddle with the memory allocator. See previous thread on the subject. :D Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list