Hello, Dne Thursday 05 February 2009 Antoine Pitrou napsal(a): > 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.
What's the replacement in the library then, in case that I just want to create a unique file name and I don't care about the possible issues? > > > Why does Python offer > > this attractive nuisance? > > Well, there was a time when security concerns were a lot less wide-spread. > Is using of virtual memory secure? Aren't we all adults suddenly? ;-) I know, the damage has already been done (as with cmp parameter of sort(ed) etc.) and I should have notice them sooner. Or it is only me, maybe, who thinks that such weight losing is not healthy for the language and library users. Regards, JP _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
