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repr() of deeply nested dicts and dictviews can cause a stack overflow. #2782

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@xiaxinmeng

When repr() take a deeply nested dicts as the argument, the stack overflows and Rust Python interpreter crashes.

test.py

x = {}
for i in range(10000):
    x = {1: x}

repr(x)

Actual output:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

System:

Ubuntu 16.04
Rust Python 0.1.2 interpreter

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