newb Q: security with variables

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Toy <gee308 at mediaone.net>:
| Could you please explain to me various secure ways of having a python
| script store variables such as your password/username in a file.
| I understand that you can chmod 0400 <variables.file>, but are there any
| other alternatives?

On a floppy disk, retained by owner of the password.

| Also, can you run python code with files that don't end with the python
| extensions(.py and others)?  That way it would make it less obvious that
| it was some sort of script.  Thanks

Yes.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu