[Python-3000] Reminder: Py3k PEPs due by April (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Apr 11 03:22:56 CEST 2007

On 4/10/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Phillip J. Eby wrote: > The subclasses method is useful -- even more so in 3.x than in 2.x, > because in 3.x there are no classic classes. For security purposes, I think it would be better to adopt a principle that it shouldn't be possible to do anything dangerous merely by instantiating a class (e.g. open() opens files, but file() doesn't). Then subclasses would be harmless.

True. As long as you don't use class attributes or have dangerous default arguments (and that is the kicker usually) then that policy is doable.

And I should clarify that the method does not need to disappear as it can move to an extension module somewhere. I just don't want it exposed right off of object and thus in the built-in namespace.

-Brett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/attachments/20070410/cfbcd37e/attachment.html

More information about the Python-3000 mailing list