On 2006-06-29, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Maclaren wrote:
>
>> It's definitely worth fixing, but not as a high priority. Invoking a
>> file spuriously is potentially serious, with very low probability.
>
> the traceback printer is reading the file (using a very robust reader),
> it's not "invoking" it.
If you make <stdin> a fifo and pipe something into it, it's
sort of fun:
$ mkfifo \<stdin\>
$ while true; do yow >\<stdin\>; done
$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 17 2006, 12:02:16)
[GCC 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print a
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
Yow! Bo Derek ruined my life!
NameError: name 'a' is not defined
>>> print a
Traceback (most recent call last):
while File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
Yow! YOU!! Give me the CUTEST, PINKEST, most charming little VICTORIAN
DOLLHOUSE you can find!! An make it SNAPPY!!
NameError: name 'a' is not defined
>>> print a
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
Yow! I will establish the first SHOPPING MALL in NUTLEY, New Jersey...
NameError: name 'a' is not defined
>>> import foo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
Yow! Is this where people are HOT and NICE and they give you TOAST for
FREE??
File "foo.py", line 4, in ?
p('set out')
NameError: name 'p' is not defined
OK, so not everybody finds things like that amusing...
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