>>> def f(): pass ... >>> co = f.__code__.replace(co_linetable=b'') >>> import dis >>> dis.dis(co) python: Objects/codeobject.c:1185: PyLineTable_NextAddressRange: Assertion `!at_end(range)' failed. Aborted (core dumped) It is expected that executing bogus code object can crash (or cause any other effect). But it is surprising that just inspecting it causes a crash.

This seems to be part 2 of the problems Mark mentioned in issue42562. Namely in this case the `co_lnotab` accessor uses PyLineTable_NextAddressRange which has that assertion.

dis is able to handle code with no line numbers. >>> def f(): pass ... >>> co = f.__code__.replace(co_linetable=b'\xff') >>> list(co.co_lines()) [] >>> import dis >>> dis.dis(co) 0 LOAD_CONST 0 (None) 2 RETURN_VALUE The problem with the example Serhiy gives is that the line number table does not end in a sentinel value. You shouldn't be creating code objects unless you really know what you are doing. I.e. never. For manually created code objects that don't respect the invariants, any behavior is acceptable IMO.

Using sentinels as a marker to terminate the line number table, might be a problem if we want to use a different format. So I'm fixing this for 3.10.

 New changeset c76da79b37d2bcbe575cc927ba0a9b7a9ce465db by Mark Shannon in branch 'master': bpo-42739: Don't use sentinels to mark end of line table. (GH-25657) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c76da79b37d2bcbe575cc927ba0a9b7a9ce465db