How do you set up a stack?

[Fredrik Lundh]

s713221 at student.gu.edu.au wrote:
> However, all of these are dealing with numbers. I'd be interested to see
> if someone did have an example of a malicious eval use.

from the eff-bot guide to the standard library:

    eval("__import__('os').remove('file')")
    eval("__import__('os').system('rm -rf /')")
    eval("'*'*1000000*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2")

(etc)

eval("whatever", {"__builtins__": {}}) takes care of many
of them, but not memory/CPU attacks.

Cheers /F