[Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jul 23 03:24:43 CEST 2006


Armin Rigo wrote:

I'm not sure I understand what you propose to fix holes like constructors and subclasses: it seems that you want to remove them altogether (and e.g. make factory functions instead). That would completely break all programs, right? I mean, there is no way such changes would go into mainstream CPython.

How much code is actually out there that uses subclasses? It seems like a fairly esoteric corner of the language to me.

In any case, I think this approach should certainly be tried, and if it works out, considered for Py3k.

-- Greg



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