converting data to hex

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sat Feb 1 17:42:52 EST 2003


Peter Abel wrote:

> About 3 times faster.

The speed isn't even really the issue; the opportunity for exploits when
using eval or exec is the issue.  You almost never want to use eval or
exec with general data, and you certainly don't if there is a more
direct way to do it through other means.

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