On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:20 AM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> אלעזר writes: > > > Another use case, though I admit not the top priority of anyone here, is > > that of assignment checkers. In most courses I took at the university, > the > > person who checks the assignments says something like "you are allowed > to > > use only this this and this libraries", in order not to mess with > unknown > > dependencies from tens of students (I am talking about advanced courses, > > where the method I use to solve the problem is unimportant or only > requires > > explanation). With this statement they can simply state "you can import > > pip". > > In other words, you're advocating a feature that allows script writers > to download, install, and execute arbitrary, unsandboxed code on any > machine where the script is run. That sounds ... *scary*, when put > that way. Remember, you're advocating this on behalf of people who > by assumption are infants years below the age of consent. > > Let me understand. Your argument is "installing pip modules is unsafe, and therefore we should make it less usable, where the appropriate amount of (un)usability is running cmd and then `pip install unsafe`" ?
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