Chick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm writing a security tool which requies wiping off the memory of > certain string after being used, which I've done by implementing it as > a mutable list as follow:
You really can't do that reliably in Python and for that matter you can't really do it reliably in any other language, without OS and possibly hardware assistance to make sure the password isn't paged or swapped, etc. In Linux, for example, see the mlock system call. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
