[New-bugs-announce] [issue3418] heavy resource usage with string functions

[mgogoulos]

New submission from mgogoulos <mgogoulos at abiss.gr>:

Not sure if this is a bug, however the following string functions when
called with very big numbers as the padding arguments consume great
system resources. My estimation is that it would help to exist a limit
on what can be specified as width.

Check (center, ljust, rjust, zfill)

eg.

import string
string.center('..', 2147483647)

Tested on python versions: 2.5.1 and 2.5.2

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 70034
nosy: mgogoulos
severity: normal
status: open
title: heavy resource usage with string functions
type: resource usage
versions: Python 2.5

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