[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus? (original) (raw)

Andrew Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:04:23 -0500

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:55:15PM -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

And we've made it a lot easier for strings that are not part of Python source code, and for people who produce that data but never know Python.

But for applications where people don't edit Python, this could just be a library module and doesn't need a new operator in the Python code. I agree with Paul; there's no actual gain in clarity from the new syntax.

> Plus, operator-based evaluation has some security implications that > compile time evaluation does not. In particular, if the left-hand thing I'm not sure I understand this.

Presumably Paul is thinking of something like: mlist = load_list('listname')

Lists have .title, .password, ...

form_value = cgi.form['text'] # User puts $password into text print text \ vars(mlist)

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