[Python-Dev] datetime.date.today() raises "AttributeError: time"

[James Y Knight]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:55 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

> Turns out, I created an empty time.py in /tmp, just to see the error
> message. By buildout will when creating eggs from checked out modules,
> copy them to a directory under /tmp, and evidently run python from
> /tmp to create the eggs. So that process finds the time.pyc, created
> from the empty time.py, which I hadn't deleted, and breaks!

Sounds like a security hole in zc.buildout. Imagine someone *else*  
made a time.py in /tmp...

James