[New-bugs-announce] [issue5794] pickle/cPickle of recursive tuples create pickles that cPickle can't load

[Carl Witty]

New submission from Carl Witty <Carl.Witty at gmail.com>:

When I try to pickle a recursive tuple (that recurses through a list),
pickle can load the result but cPickle fails with "unpickling stack
overflow".

(I just downloaded and built Python 2.6.2 on 64-bit x86 Debian testing
to verify this bug; it also fails on Python 2.5.2 on 32-bit x86 Debian
testing.  I think that probably it doesn't depend on the architecture or
operating system at all.)

Here is the test case.  At the end, cPickle.loads raises an exception;
instead, it should produce an object equivalent to v, like pickle.loads
does.  (I didn't show it in the test case, but pickles produced by
pickle.dumps have the same behavior -- they work with pickle.loads but
not cPickle.loads.)

>>> v = ([],)
>>> v[0].append(v)
>>> import pickle
>>> import cPickle
>>> v
([([...],)],)
>>> vp = cPickle.dumps(v)
>>> pickle.loads(vp)
([([...],)],)
>>> cPickle.loads(vp)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
cPickle.UnpicklingError: unpickling stack underflow

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 86177
nosy: cwitty
severity: normal
status: open
title: pickle/cPickle of recursive tuples create pickles that cPickle can't load
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6

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