[Python-3000] Immutable bytes type and bsddb or other IO

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> someone evil could still produce a phase error by
> changing the contents while you're looking at it (basically sabotaging
> their own application) but I don't see how they could cause a segfault
> that way.

Maybe not in the same program, but if the data is
output from the back end of a compiler, and it
gets corrupted, then when you try to run the
resulting object file...

--
Greg