[python-advocacy] Python makes the "most wanted list"

Jeff Rush jeff at taupro.com
Tue Feb 12 00:18:31 CET 2008


Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
> There's not a lot we can do about existing programs, but adding a  
> function to the standard library to properly parse out the links would  
> solve the problem for new code, since most developers would use it  
> rather than writing their own.

Another step we could take is to search the Cheeseshop to insure we don't have
any of these misbehaving programs in our repository.  I wonder if there is
some way to globally search uploaded source packages for use of urllib2 and
then visually check them for abusive patterns.

-Jeff


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