[Python-Dev] 'hasattr' is broken by design (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Mon Aug 23 22:13:51 CEST 2010


2010/8/23 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>:

To me hasattr looks like a passive introspection function, and the fact that it can trigger arbitrary code execution is unfortunate - especially because a full workaround is pretty arcane.

That's the danger of a dynamic language like Python. Even dir() can now trigger things like that.

-- Regards, Benjamin



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