On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:43:46 -0800, Aahz wrote: >>> WARNING: eval() is almost always the wrong answer to any question >> >>warning : it works ! > > Works for what?
Code injection security bugs, of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_injection It is surprisingly difficult to sanitize strings in Python to make them safe to pass to eval. Unless you are prepared to trust the input data explicitly, it's best to just avoid eval. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
