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Created on 2013-12-13 00:29 by vstinner, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| bytes_fromformat_c.patch | vstinner, 2013-12-13 00:30 | review | ||
| bytes_fromformat_c-2.patch | vstinner, 2013-12-13 09:38 | review | ||
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| msg205996 - (view) | Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) *  | Date: 2013-12-13 00:29 | |
PyBytes_FromFormatV("%c") and PyString_FromFormatV("%c") overflow if the parameter is not in range [0; 255]. If nobody complained before, it's maybe not worth to fix the bug in Python 2.7 or 3.3. | |||
| msg205997 - (view) | Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * | Date: 2013-12-13 00:30 | |
Here is a patch for Python 3.4. | |||
| msg206033 - (view) | Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * | Date: 2013-12-13 09:38 | |
Updated patch for Serhiy's remark (replace ValueError with OverflowError). | |||
| msg206035 - (view) | Author: Serhiy Storchaka (serhiy.storchaka) * | Date: 2013-12-13 09:49 | |
LGTM. | |||
| msg206062 - (view) | Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)  | Date: 2013-12-13 11:47 | |
New changeset 68e0dbc492de by Victor Stinner in branch '3.3': Issue #19969: PyBytes_FromFormatV() now raises an OverflowError if "%c" http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/68e0dbc492de New changeset 969e38b2f336 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': (Merge 3.3) Issue #19969: PyBytes_FromFormatV() now raises an OverflowError if http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/969e38b2f336 | |||
| msg206085 - (view) | Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * | Date: 2013-12-13 14:01 | |
It was easy to fix the issue on Python 3.3 (there are already unit tests on PyBytes_FromFormatV). I prefer to leave Python 2.7 with it's current behaviour because applications running on Python 2.7 may be old and might be rely on the integer overflow. PyString is the native "string" type, so it is usually used. Whereas in Python 3, bytes is not the native type. I chose to fix Python 3.3 because it's a recent release and I believe that applications are more recent and if they rely on the bug, they can more easily fixed. (Ok, I bet that in practice, nobody cares of non-ASCII characters in PyBytes_FromFormatV() because PyBytes_FromFormatV() is probably not used in the wild.) So let close this minor issue. | |||
| History | |||
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:57:55 | admin | set | github: 64168 |
| 2013-12-13 14:01:46 | vstinner | set | status: open -> closed resolution: fixed messages: + msg206085 |
| 2013-12-13 11:47:51 | python-dev | set | nosy: + python-dev messages: + msg206062 |
| 2013-12-13 09:49:55 | serhiy.storchaka | set | versions: + Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 messages: + msg206035 assignee: vstinner type: behavior stage: commit review |
| 2013-12-13 09:38:38 | vstinner | set | files: + bytes_fromformat_c-2.patch messages: + msg206033 |
| 2013-12-13 00:30:45 | vstinner | set | files: + bytes_fromformat_c.patch nosy: + serhiy.storchaka messages: + msg205997 keywords: + patch |
| 2013-12-13 00:29:48 | vstinner | create | |