[Patches] [ python-Patches-633547 ] Plural forms support for gettext

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Patches item #633547, was opened at 2002-11-05 00:43
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Category: Library (Lib)
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Juan David Ibáñez Palomar (jdavid)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Plural forms support for gettext

Initial Comment:
Adds support for plural forms to the gettext module.
The test script has been rewritten to use unittest.

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>Comment By: Juan David Ibáñez Palomar (jdavid)
Date: 2002-11-06 20:04

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I wasn't aware of the security implications, there will
be a new version of the patch sometime between 18 and 30
this month.

I used eval for simplicity and performance reasons, the
lookup in the catalog must be as fast as posible, so the
parsing must be when the MO file is loaded.

I will keep the use of eval, but it will check that 'n'
is the only identifier used and, by the way, I will clean
this part of the patch.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-11-05 10:36

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The patch looks quite good, overall. However, I don't like
the use of eval to generate the plural form function: it is,
in general, a security issue to evaluate a string that you
read from some file.

I would prefer if it parses the string, or uses other
mechanisms to establish "safety": for example, if the only
identifier occurring in the string is 'n', then this would
be a good test. You might want to use
tokenize.generate_tokens for that.

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