Two lines of Python that segfault the interpreter

monkpit a day ago | parent | next [-]

> ET_ADD trusted the compiler, and PEP 749 quietly handed user code a way to break that trust

Sigh, and I quietly closed the article as it was quietly written by AI.

That’s not just lazy — that’s uninteresting. And it’s more uninteresting than you think.

shakna a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Hasn't Python always guaranteed messing with __annotations__ directly, as unsafe?

This isn't some bug. It's documented behaviour.

	▲	Doxin 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Python doesn't try especially hard to stop you from doing stupid things in general. It's kind of core to the language that it doesn't. Hence no access modifiers. I think it's usually phrased as "we're all consenting adults".