[New-bugs-announce] [issue7338] recursive __attribute__ -> Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow.

[kai zhu]

New submission from kai zhu <kaizhu256 at gmail.com>:

Python 3.1.1 (r311:74480, Sep 13 2009, 17:17:12)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
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>>> class Foo(object):
...   def __getattribute__(self, attr):
...     try: return object.__getattribute__(attr)
...     except: return self.x
...
>>> Foo().y
Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow.
Aborted
$

python2.6 recovers from above w/ a RuntimeError

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 95381
nosy: kaizhu
severity: normal
status: open
title: recursive __attribute__ -> Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow.
type: crash
versions: Python 3.1

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