[Python-Dev] Is core dump always a bug? Advice requested

[Greg Ewing]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:

> Or is ceval intended to be robust against random strings masquerading
> as valid byte code (which would seem require an InvalidByteCode
> exception).

As long as it's possible to attempt to execute arbitrary strings
as bytecode, I'd say ceval should be robust against this.

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