> There are other crashers we choose to ignore (involving gc.getreferrers, > bytecode hacks, ctypes, etc). I think this should go in that category
> and I would be happy to add a note to that effect in the docs for tertools.
Yes, including my previous example with repr()
a = None
for i in range(100000):
a = {1: a}
repr(a)
This is a case where care has been taken for lists, tuples, but not dicts. If we want to fix repr, the recursion checking shoudl probably go into PyObject_repr(). I'm not advocating for a fix, Just pointing out yet another way you can construct objects so that accessnig them will cause a crash.