changeset 36573:9b6b02a5b589

templatefilters: avoid infinite recursion bug in stringify This doesn't ever happen on Python 2, but it's been a persistent pain on Python 3. Adding this helped produce some of my upcoming Python 3 fixes. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2553
author Augie Fackler <augie@google.com>
date Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:08:11 -0500
parents 9adfa48792a7
children 45f149bf08d1
files mercurial/templatefilters.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/templatefilters.py	Fri Mar 02 00:37:55 2018 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/templatefilters.py	Fri Mar 02 09:08:11 2018 -0500
@@ -376,6 +376,12 @@
     """
     thing = templatekw.unwraphybrid(thing)
     if util.safehasattr(thing, '__iter__') and not isinstance(thing, bytes):
+        if isinstance(thing, str):
+            # This is only reachable on Python 3 (otherwise
+            # isinstance(thing, bytes) would have been true), and is
+            # here to prevent infinite recursion bugs on Python 3.
+            raise error.ProgrammingError(
+                'stringify got unexpected unicode string: %r' % thing)
         return "".join([stringify(t) for t in thing if t is not None])
     if thing is None:
         return ""