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diff --git a/doc/faq.rst b/doc/faq.rst index a42080e..1ce9a3e 100644 --- a/doc/faq.rst +++ b/doc/faq.rst @@ -261,12 +261,25 @@ mangled sys.path. Pylint doesn't import any of the candidate modules and thus doesn't include any of import's side effects (good and bad). It traverses an AST representation of the code. -6.3 I think I found a bug in Pylint. What should I do? +6.3 Pylint keeps crashing with `Maximum recursion depth exceeded` +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +Pylint can crash with this error if you have a string in your analyzed +program, created by joining a lot of strings with the addition operator. +Due to how Pylint works, visiting nodes on a AST tree and due to how +the BinOp node is represented (the node which represents the string '1+1' +for instance), the same visit method will be called over and over again, leading +to a maximum recursion error. You can alleviate this problem by passing +the flag `--optimize-ast=y` to Pylint. This will activate an optimization +which will transform such AST subtrees into the final resulting string. +This flag is off by default. If this is not the case, please report a bug! + +6.4 I think I found a bug in Pylint. What should I do? ------------------------------------------------------- Read http://docs.pylint.org/contribute#bug-reports-feedback -6.4 I have a question about Pylint that isn't answered here. +6.5 I have a question about Pylint that isn't answered here. ------------------------------------------------------------ Read http://docs.pylint.org/contribute#mailing-lists |