Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Luis Zarrabeitia kyrie at uh.cu
Wed Jan 14 12:03:05 EST 2009


On Wednesday 14 January 2009 11:18:51 am Paul Rubin wrote:
> Luis Zarrabeitia <kyrie at uh.cu> writes:
> > when you need to share some objects with potentially untrusted code
> > (like, a plugin system). You can't, and you shouldn't, expect that the
> > user will know what plugins he should or shouldn't load, and you
> > shouldn't blame him/her when your app stops working because you failed to
> > protect it's internals from malicious plugins (think web browser).
>
> Python is not set up for this even slightly.  Java attempts it, with
> mixed success.

I know. I find it sad, though. Also, I find it not a priority.

-- 
Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie)
Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.
http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie



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