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Warn that dbm.dumb.open() can crash Python (GH-6047)
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Brett Cannon
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Doc/library/dbm.rst
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@ -361,6 +361,11 @@ The module defines the following: |
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database has to be created. It defaults to octal ``0o666`` (and will be modified |
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by the prevailing umask). |
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.. warning:: |
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It is possible to crash the Python interpreter when loading a database |
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with a sufficiently large/complex entry due to stack depth limitations in |
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Python's AST compiler. |
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.. versionchanged:: 3.5 |
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:func:`.open` always creates a new database when the flag has the value |
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``'n'``. |
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