2009/9/20 Zooko O'Whielacronx <zoo...@gmail.com>: > Dear Pythonistas: > > This issue causes serious problems. Users occasionally get binaries built > for a > compatible Linux and Python version but with a different UCS2-vs-UCS4 setting, > and those users get mysterious memory corruption errors which are hard to > diagnose. It is possible that these situations also open up security > vulnerabilities. A couple such instances are documented on > http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue78, but you can find more by googling. > I would like to get this problem fixed!
You may want to have a look at the archives of the last time this was extensively discussed: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/080886.html -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
