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. 

> Why does Python offer
> this attractive nuisance?

Well, there was a time when security concerns were a lot less wide-spread.

Regards

Antoine.


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