web security question.

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Sat, 15 May 2004 09:40:47 -0500, rumours say that Jeff Epler
<jepler at unpythonic.net> might have written:

>There's no reason to believe that the implementation of Python,
>written in C, is free from buffer overflow bugs, string format bugs, or
>any other of the classes of bugs that affect C programs.

[snip]

This message is related:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1042778911.1136.python-list%40python.org

I didn't test if Tim's snippet produces a segfault, though.

PS I have used Martin's quote when advocating for Python to other
people.
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