More random python observations from a perl programmer

Hrvoje Niksic hniksic at srce.hr
Wed Sep 15 20:11:44 EDT 1999


"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:

> [Hrvoje]
> > My point exactly.
> 
> What, you're opposed to convenience <wink>?

When it provides easy access to something potentially dangerous and
rarely useful, I am.  Obviously, you disagree that this is the case
with input().

> Python is used by all sorts of people for all sorts of things, and
> not every app (not even most Python apps, I'd wager) need to worry
> about inventively malicious users.

It's not about worrying about inventively malicious users, but about
being aware of what's going on.




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