Semi-closing a hole

Posted Apr 12, 2012 12:10 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Semi-closing a hole by zuki
Parent article: Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 security release

Indeed, the bug discussion is very interesting: I just browsed it and people did debate many of the solutions proposed in the recent LWN article.

In the end the simplest solution won, which is not a bad thing in itself -- especially with a security fix, as others have remarked here.