On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 4:13 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > By providing a way to intentionally switch off the new default, > we do make people aware of the risks and that's good enough, > while still maintaining the contract people rightly expect of > patch level releases of Python.
Just as long as it's the sysadmin, and NOT some random attacker over the internet, who has the power to downgrade security. Environment variables can be attacked in various ways. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com