[Tutor] Re: Suggestions for cleaner code

[Magnus Lyckå]

At 18:02 2003-07-08 -0700, Jeff Shannon wrote:
>Even worse, someone could easily type something like 'import os; 
>os.system("rm -s /")' -- this *will* import the os module and spawn a 
>shell that will attempt to delete every file on your system.

No it won't. You can only evaluate expressions, not arbitrary
statements. But the second part 'os.system("rm -s /")' is
certainly possible, so if the program has already imported
the os module, you are definitely in danger.


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