[Python-Dev] Proposal: thread.get_dict

[Armin Rigo]

Hello Michael,

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 03:00:32PM -0400, Chermside, Michael wrote:
> > I am pretty sure that some extension modules would badly 
> > crash if arbitrary
> > Python code would be allowed to temper with the data that 
> > they store there.  
> 
> We're all consenting adults here. Tampering with the private
> data of an extension module is a well-known way to crash
> Python.

Is it?  I am not aware of any such example in the standard library.  I am sure
that it would be considered as a bug.  The only (internal and expected) ways
to crash the Python interpreter from Python are currently to abuse new.code()
or gc.getreferents().  If an extension module allows this kind of tampering
from Python code I'd consider it poorly written.


Armin