[Python-Dev] PEP 553 V2 - builtin breakpoint() (was Re: PEP 553: Built-in debug()) (original) (raw)

Adrian Petrescu apetresc at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 23:02:52 EDT 2017


Would that not be a security concern, if you can get Python to execute arbitrary code just by setting an environment variable?

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Sep 7, 2017, at 19:34, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now that you put it that way, it occurs to me that CI environments > could set "PYTHONBREAKPOINTHOOK=sys:exit" to make breakpoint() an > immediate failure rather than halting the CI run waiting for input > that will never arrive. You better watch out Nick. You’re starting to sway me on adding the environment variable. -Barry


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