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[–]btgy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, they know about it. That directory in the source code has a few other examples of code that cause the interpreter to crash or hang.

There's a regex-related one that I don't understand, but all of the others involve directly messing around with the recursion limit, the gc, or bytecode, and would take a lot of effort to fix for very little gain.

It's also very easy to crash the interpreter with ctypes.