[Python-Dev] 'hasattr' is broken by design (original) (raw)
Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Mon Aug 23 22:13:51 CEST 2010
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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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