On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:42:20 -0500, rumours say that Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>This works: > >>>> bz2.decompress(eval(repr(user))) >'huge' >This may have some security issues, though, since it evaluates essentially >any expression given for user. I'd be interested to know if someone >knows a more secure way. given a = "a tab\\x09between" this is more secure than eval: b= a.decode("string_escape") -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Dear Paul, please stop spamming us." The Corinthians -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list