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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:59:51 -0500

Andrew Kuchling writes:

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.

I'm happy with that as well.

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)

Yes, but I'm not convinced this has any more security implications implications than using a library function to perform the transformation.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation