[Python-Dev] ctypes compatibility with 2.3

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, 11 May 2016 at 04:35 Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:

> Am 10.05.2016 um 19:39 schrieb Brett Cannon:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 01:18 Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com
> > <mailto:vadmium%2Bpy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I am working on <https://bugs.python.org/issue22636>, to fix shell
> >     injection problems with ctypes.util.find_library(). The proposal for
> >     Python 3 is to change os.popen(shell-script) calls to use
> >     subprocess.Popen().
> >
> >     However the Python 2.7 version of the module has a comment which says
> >     “This file should be kept compatible with Python 2.3, see PEP 291.”
> >     Looking at <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/>, it is not
> >     clear why we have to maintain this compatibility. My best guess is
> >     that there may be an external ctypes package that people want(ed) to
> >     keep compatible with 2.3, and also keep synchronized with 2.7.
> >
> >
> > That's correct and the maintainer is/was Thomas Heller who I have cc'ed
> > to see if he's okay with lifting the restriction.
>
> For me it is totally ok to lift this restriction.
>

Great! I'll also update PEP 291.
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