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[2.7] bpo-32758: Warn that compile() can crash when compiling to an AST object (GH-6043) #16566

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character. This is to facilitate detection of incomplete and complete
statements in the :mod:`code` module.

.. warning::

It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a
sufficiently large/complex string when compiling to an AST
object due to stack depth limitations in Python's AST compiler.

.. versionchanged:: 2.3
The *flags* and *dont_inherit* arguments were added.

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