: On 7 November 2017 at 18:53, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

I find it dubious to claim that these functions are dangerous to beginners. The dangers are related to attacks on servers that are exposed to the internet and beginners have no business running servers.

I can't be the only one whose experience is that it's very often those with the least business running servers that actually do run them, surely? +1 -[]z.