Deleting objects in Python 1.6

[Michael Hudson]

Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> writes:

> This is slightly unnerving ... (good to know, though) ... I want to
> write long-running programs in python that run user-supplied code.
> 
> I take it all of these well-known problems will be fixed in python
> 1.6?

Some will, some won't.  I don't think you'll be able to completely
protect your process from arbitrary user code without rexec or
something of that ilk - I mean:

while 1:
   pass

is pretty unhelpful...

Cheers,
M.

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