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. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15061> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com