[ python-Bugs-1180997 ] lax error-checking in new-in-2.4 marshal stuff

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Bugs item #1180997, was opened at 2005-04-11 21:53
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 7
Submitted By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: lax error-checking in new-in-2.4 marshal stuff

Initial Comment:
I realise one of the points of the TYPE_STRINGREF and so on stuff 
was efficiency, but:

>>> marshal.loads('R') # TYPE_STRINGREF == 'R'
Segmentation fault



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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-04-11 23:25

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I agree, and will try to work on a patch before 2.4.2.

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