[Python-Dev] Proposal: thread.get_dict

Chermside, Michael mchermside at ingdirect.com
Mon Jun 28 15:00:32 EDT 2004


Armin Rigo writes:
> I am pretty sure that some extension modules would badly 
> crash if arbitrary
> Python code would be allowed to temper with the data that 
> they store there.  

We're all consenting adults here. Tampering with the private
data of an extension module is a well-known way to crash
Python.

-- Michael Chermside


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