[Python-Dev] blocking 2.7

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Sun Jul 4 08:19:15 CEST 2010


On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
>
> In the worst case, a function rejects valid data. If I have to choose, I
> prefer to reject valid data than a security vulnerability. But audioop has
> tests and I don't think that my patch breaks anything :-)

But Python tests lack coverage stats, so it is hard to say anything.
Even with tests it is not always possible to be even 80% sure if
behavior is complicated or depends on the input data.
-- 
anatoly t.


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