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Expand Up @@ -274,6 +274,12 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
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:: 3.2
Allowed use of Windows and Mac newlines. Also input in ``'exec'`` mode
does not have to end in a newline anymore. Added the *optimize* parameter.
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