[Python-Dev] Evil setattr hack (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:49:17 +0100

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

Someone accidentally discovered a way to set attributes of built-in types, even though the implementation tries to prevent this.

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What to do about this?

Well, one approach would be special cases in PyObject_GenericSetAttr, I guess.

Cheers, M.

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