On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa...@spamschutz.glglgl.de> wrote: > Am 03.06.2011 08:28 schrieb Claudiu Popa: >> >> Hello guys, >> While working at a dispatcher using >> multiprocessing.connection.Listener module I've stumbled upon some >> sort of magic trick that amazed me. How is this possible and >> what does multiprocessing library doing in background for this to >> work? > > As Chris already said, it probably uses pickle. Doing so, you should be > aware that unpickling strings can execute arbitrary code. So be very careful > if you use something like that...
Nice piece of safe ambiguity there - two people said that, both named Chris! Just how many Chrises are there on this list? I have a pet theory that there's a greater-than-usual correlation between geeks and the name "Chris", and the Python list has provided a number of supporting instances. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
