Re: [Configobj-develop] unrepr & "non-traditional" pythons

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Ken Kuhlman wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ken Kuhlman <ksk...@gm... 
> <mailto:ksk...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Michael Foord
>     <fuz...@vo... <mailto:fuz...@vo...>> wrote:
>
>         Hello Ken,
>
>         I'll look at this. A problem with eval is that it is unsafe
>         (arbitrary
>         code execution) - which is one reason to use a text based config
>         system in the first place.
>
>         Michael
>
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>
>     Thanks Michael.  After doing some more digging around it looks
>     like this is as much a Python 3 issue as anything, and that the
>     ast module is the preferred long-term solution.
>
>     I think I'll break jython support (ignoring unrepr) out into it's
>     own ticket, and create another for using ast when compiler isn't
>     available.  The differences between the APIs is giving me fits,
>     though, so I'm not going to make any promises that the latter will
>     come with a working patch.
>
>
> I got the ast-based Builder fully working.   I ended up combining the 
> patches after all, though, since there was some overlap in the imports.
>
> Ticket #3 on google code.

Cool - great. I'll look at the best way of integrating this.

ConfigObj will need something of  a rewrite for Python 3 anyway as the 
unicode handling will be different (although not massively different 
come to think of it).

No-one has asked me for a Python 3 version yet anyway. :-)

Many thanks,

Michael

>
> Thanks,
> -Ken
>
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