[Python-Dev] PEP 466 (round 2): Network security enhancements for Python 2.7

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 08:30:30 CET 2014


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> And that's just three of the highest profile open source projects that
> make heavy use of Python. Given the likely existence of large amounts of
> legacy code that lacks the kind of automated regression test suite needed
> to help support a migration from Python 2 to Python 3. The key point of
> this PEP is that those situations affect more people than just the
> developers and users of the affected application: their existence becomes
> something that developers of secure networked services need to take into
> account as part of their security design.

Grammatical point: The sentence beginning "Given..." doesn't seem complete.

ChrisA


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