[Python-Dev] Regression fix releases coming

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Apr 30 23:07:16 CEST 2013


Sorry, that was my confusion. The virus warnings were about the bz2
test data. XML bombs have not yet been addressed in any revision
AFAIK.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.vawda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2013/4/30 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
>> > Can we do something about the problem that virus checkers complain about
>> > the
>> > xml bomb test file? E.g. Generate it dynamically in a script?
>>
>> That's been dealt with. See http://bugs.python.org/issue17843
>
>
> I don't think that's the same issue. The link you gave is about *BZ2* test
> data triggering antivirus warnings, not XML. Is there another issue for a
> similar problem with an XML test file? (Searching bugs.python.org for "xml
> antivirus" doesn't turn up any results...)
>
> - Nadeem



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