[Python-Dev] Warnings (original) (raw)

Jaroslav Pachola pachola at mageo.cz
Thu Feb 5 18:08:09 CET 2009

Hello,

Dne Thursday 05 February 2009 Antoine Pitrou napsal(a):

Hello,

> I agree. The best thing to do would be to deprecate the Python wrappers > around insecure C functions and then remove them after a couple releases. They have been removed in 3.0.

What's the replacement in the library then, in case that I just want to create a unique file name and I don't care about the possible issues?

> Why does Python offer > this attractive nuisance? Well, there was a time when security concerns were a lot less wide-spread.

Is using of virtual memory secure? Aren't we all adults suddenly? ;-)

I know, the damage has already been done (as with cmp parameter of sort(ed) etc.) and I should have notice them sooner. Or it is only me, maybe, who thinks that such weight losing is not healthy for the language and library users.

Regards,

JP

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