#7060: Tutorial skips over a race condition
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Reporter: donald.ball@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by garrison):
* status: closed => new
* severity: => Normal
* resolution: invalid =>
* easy: => 0
* ui_ux: => 0
* type: => Uncategorized
Comment:
I am re-opening this, as I think the decision here ought to be revisited.
It reflects poorly on Django for the tutorial to teach poor coding
practices, particularly when there is a race condition in a vote-tallying
app. More and more, such race conditions are being treated as true
security vulnerabilities.
Following
[http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/33zg4u/race_conditions_on_facebook_digitalocean_and/cqpxnpp
discussion on reddit], I suggest putting a note in the tutorial mentioning
that the code indeed has a race condition, and that more advanced users
should consider Django's F-expressions instead.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/7060#comment:7>
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