New submission from Henri Salo <he...@nerv.fi>:

Module logging has dangerous examples as one can see from: 
<http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#simple-examples> 15.6.1.1:

> import logging
> LOG_FILENAME = '/tmp/logging_example.out'
> logging.basicConfig(filename=LOG_FILENAME,level=logging.DEBUG)
> logging.debug('This message should go to the log file')

It is not very wise to guide programmers to create programming mistakes. More 
information about the situation from: 
<http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Insecure_Temporary_File>.

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components: None
messages: 106982
nosy: Henri.Salo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Module logging has dangerous examples
type: security
versions: Python 2.6

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