Re: Who should security issues be reported to?

Fredrik Lundh wrote: Nick Coghlan wrote: I'm sorry, but this isn't really good enough. If Open Source wants to say that they are better than these proprietary companies, they need to deal with these sorts of things more professionally and establish decent channels of communications for dealing wit

Re: what's OOP's jargons and complexities?

"PA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Jan 29, 2005, at 01:09, Martin Ambuhl wrote: > >> Xah Lee wrote his usual masturbatory crap: > > Well... I have to admit that I tremendously enjoyed such "masturbatory > crap" (sic). > > Eagerly looking toward the next insta

Re: Who should security issues be reported to?

> OP: Did you discover this supposed security hole from black-box observation > of behavior or by being one of the 'lots of people being able to look at > source code', thereby giving evidence to the point? The technique used which is the source of the problem was actually first discovered in a se

Re: limited python virtual machine

Alex Martelli wrote: Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... If I could see how to go from 'object' (or 'int', 'str', 'file', etc.) to 'eval' or '__import__', that would help out a lot... object.__subclasses__() [, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ] Traipse through these, find one class that

Re: what's OOP's jargons and complexities?

Hi Dan, On Jan 29, 2005, at 02:31, Dan Perl wrote: At first I thought you were being sarcastic. For once, no. Something which is pretty much out of character I have to confess 8^) I doubt that now. Iindulge my curiosity please and tell us what you enjoy about it. Well... perhaps it's a question

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- Original Message - From: "Peter Otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > According to http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/CHANGES the > features you missed were introduced in readline 4.0 and 4.2, so version 4.3 > should be sufficient. So let me ask you again, you have both the readline > a

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Let's see, the urandom module was recently released in 2.4, I think > > initially at my urging. > > There is no urandom module in Python 2.4. Oops, sorry, it's in the os module: http://docs.python.org/lib/os-miscfunc.html The difference is si

Re: PythonWin (build 203) for Python 2.3 causes Windows 2000 to grind to a halt?

Chris P. wrote: AWESOME - my life just got THAT much better. The bug you suggested is exactly the problem that I was having... I had looked through the bugs being tracked, but the title of that one didn't jump out at me as something that would help. Thanks! - Chris P.S. For anyone reading this gro

Re: what's OOP's jargons and complexities?

PA wrote: > Plus, a man which such cinematographic tastes [1] cannot be entirely > bad :P > > http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Personal_dir/favorite_movies.html The site proves he is evil. Grep "Titus" if you have a strong stomach. I'm sure you did not get that far. -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Who should security issues be reported to?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who are the appropriate people to report security problems to in respect of a module included with the Python distribution? I don't feel it appropriate to be reporting it on general mailing lists. After my original flippant reply, I've been thinking some more about this, an

Re: Installing Numeric with ATLAS and LAPACK

Could you clarify this please? Let's say that I want to make a call to the LAPACK routine sspevd, and pass it a matrix, and get the result. How do I accomplish this? Thanks, Daran -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Who should security issues be reported to?

Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After my original flippant reply, I've been thinking some more about > this, and whether CPython can really benefit from initial notification > of a security flaw going privately to the developers first. > > And, due to CPython's release model, I really d

Re: Elliptic Code

Quite so - but thanks for your help in any case "Paul Rubin" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I understand the algorithm quite well but how to code the >> > multiplication >> > stage most efficiently in python

Re: Daylight savings and getmtime

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on my windows xp box os.path.getmtime gives back local time (I just saved the file): os.path.getmtime('c:\\temp\\testset.py') 1106955016 print time.mktime(time.localtime()) 1106955034.0 No. mktime is converting the local time to UTC. Try this instead: Py> time.gmtime(os.pat

Re: what's OOP's jargons and complexities?

Martin Ambuhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Dan Perl wrote: | | > Actually, it can be as simple as: | > public class test { | | There is no "public" or "class" in C. Please don't post such trash to | comp.lang.c. In fact, C++ is not topical in any of the five But, it was anything but C++. Ma

Re: An mysql-python tutorial?

Dfenestr8 said the following on 1/28/2005 5:21 PM: Hi. Been told by the admin of my (free!) server that he'd rather I should learn to use mysql if I want to continue writing cgi scripts there. Not even sure exactly what mysql is. Is there a simple tutorial anywhere on the web about using python + m

Re: Pystone benchmark: Win vs. Linux (again)

Franco Fiorese wrote: > Is there any way, that you know, to get better performance under Linux? Build Python yourself, using relevant CFLAGS and TARGET for your processor? I've always noticed that Windows Python takes a lot longer to startup than Linux, but never really looked at runtime perform

Re: what's OOP's jargons and complexities?

Good post. First article that demistifies this OO centered approach in quite a long time. This approach has its strength, but also has it weakness, it is not the solution for every problem appearing in data processing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pystone benchmark: Win vs. Linux (again)

Franco Fiorese wrote: > I am relatively new about Python benchmarks. > After some experiments I found that Python on my PC Windows XP has a relevant > higher performance > than on Linux. The simple test using pystone.py shows this: > > * Windows XP Pro: 16566.7 pystones/second > * Linux (kern

Re: what's OOP's jargons and complexities?

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: Martin Ambuhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Dan Perl wrote: | | > Actually, it can be as simple as: | > public class test { | | There is no "public" or "class" in C. Please don't post such trash to | comp.lang.c. In fact, C++ is not topical in any of the five But, it wa

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