On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 01:18 Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com> wrote: > I am working on <https://bugs.python.org/issue22636>, to fix shell > injection problems with ctypes.util.find_library(). The proposal for > Python 3 is to change os.popen(shell-script) calls to use > subprocess.Popen(). > > However the Python 2.7 version of the module has a comment which says > “This file should be kept compatible with Python 2.3, see PEP 291.” > Looking at <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/>, it is not > clear why we have to maintain this compatibility. My best guess is > that there may be an external ctypes package that people want(ed) to > keep compatible with 2.3, and also keep synchronized with 2.7. > That's correct and the maintainer is/was Thomas Heller who I have cc'ed to see if he's okay with lifting the restriction. -Brett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160510/3695f414/attachment.html>
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