Grant Edwards wrote:
> Documents and settings aren't quite the same thing, but it's a > valid point. > >> Especially not the ones you wrote on that other machine. >> >> Seriously: Who is going to copy a executable around? > > I do. I copy putty.exe around all of the time. I download it every time, and if I didn't, I'd be pretty annoyed if I'd copy it to a friends machine containing ALL MY KEYS embedded into it. >> Do you know of any other program that behaves like that? > > Back in the day, that used to be fairly common under > DOS/Windows. Not that it's still not a really bad idea. Back in the day self-modifying code was the craze too. And _some_ people even do it in python :) Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list