calling a function indirectly

[Jeff Hinrichs]

see:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-August/060976.html
for some info.   Unless you have total control over what is being eval'd you
are at risk.
-Jeff

"Rajarshi Guha" <rxg218 at psu.edu> wrote in message
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> On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:24 in comp.lang.python Jeff Hinrichs
wrote:
>
> > If you wanted to get away from the dangerous eval, you could put your
> > functions inside of a class and then,
>
> Why is eval dangerous?
>
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