Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Why not write a C function which can be more secure than Python code?

For Unicode strings, it's impossible to write a time-independent
comparison function even in C

> I would argue that would be an general asset for the stdlib

I would argue that it's not. No actual use case for this function
has been demonstrated so far.

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