On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > BTW, I wouldn't argue that Python shouldn't provide things > that are only useful to root. While writing setuid utilities > in Python is a bad idea for lots of reasons, I don't think > there's anything wrong with becoming root by another means > and then running a Python program that you know well enough > to trust.
I'd go further. Once a shell script gets longer than about a page or two of code, it often needs to be rewritten in a different language, and Python is well situated to be that language. That doesn't change when the script is to be run as root. I've written many Python scripts to do sysadminning jobs for me - usually one-shot scripts, but also some that stick around. Since I wrote the scripts myself, the trust issue doesn't come up; I trust the Python interpreter the same way that I trust /bin/bash. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
