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On 3/29/2011 12:10 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:20110329191058.GJ3698@unaka.lan" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">The possible flaw in python is this: Code like the blog poster wrote passes
python3 without an error or a warning. This gives the programmer no
feedback that they're doing something wrong until it actually bites them in
the foot in deployed code.
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Yes there is a certain level of knowledge required of the system
configuration and python defaults for accessing the system for
things like filenames. It can be coded in any of several ways.<br>
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But by the above definition of "possible flaw", that seems
equivalent to saying that Python should give a warning for things
like<br>
<br>
os.unlink("my-most-important-file.doc")<br>
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