[Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 12:08:36 CEST 2006


Brett Cannon wrote:
>     Extensible file type handling
>     -----------------------------
>     If the file type handlers are stored in normal Python data
>     structures as
>     described above, it becomes feasible to make the import system
>     extensible to
>     different file types as well as to different file locations.
> 
> 
> Yep.  Although I am more interested in restricting than broadening the 
> file types.

Either way you'd be mutating the list of recognised file types :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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