[Python-ideas] `to_file()` method for strings

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmichel at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> If it's for quick data saving, the security is not an issue since the
> data will never comes from an attacker if you do a quick script.
>

that's why we have pickle already -- but a nice human-readable and editable
form would be nice...

Also -- when it comes to security  it's a tough one -- people DO start with
one thing, thinking "I will always trust this source" (if they think about
it at all), then later expand the system to be a web service, or .. and
oops!


> For other needs, where security is an issue, having a one liner to dump
> some serialization is not going to do much of a difference.
>

no -- I kind of mixed topics here -- my "safe json serialization" would be
for web services, configuration, etc -- where security matters, but quick
one-liner access is not so important -- though why not have one thing for
multiple uses?

-CHB



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