On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 10:09 am, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 24Mar2017 18:08, Abdul Abdul <abdul.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >>I hope you are doing fine. I have added a question on StackOverflow and >>thought you might have an idea on it. This is the question >><https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42991477/python-structuring-a-file-similar-to-another-pickled-file> > > Hi Adbul, > > Please just post the question here, with a nice descriptive Subject: line. > > It is quite possible for people to be reading this list when they do not > have web access (eg offline on a train, as I sometimes do) and it is > anyway annoying to have to open a web browser to see what you are asking > about, and doubly annoying to copy from that question into the list for > replies.
I solve that problem by hitting Delete on the original post, ESPECIALLY if they BCC or CC me without a good excuse. As I was in this case: the OP BCCed me in his post. I'm not *that* special, so my guess is that he did a mass BCC of many regulars here, which makes this spam. Judging from the question on Stackoverflow, I think he's just trying to drive eyeballs to the question so he can get higher reputation. It is a silly question: he says he has a pickle file containing an image file, and he's asking (1) what's in the pickle file, and (2) how can he create an identical pickle file containing a different image. The answer to (1) is "Whatever you put in it". Or possibly malware: he links to an actual pickle file he has put up on-line somewhere. Anyone brave enough to unpickle it in a sandbox and report on whether it contains what he says it contains? Remember that pickles can contain arbitrary executable code. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
