On Tue, 8 May 2001, Jacob Meuser wrote: > One other thing to note - perl is standard on almost every Unix-like > OS. Python is not, at least not yet. It's standard with redhat and it's relatives (it's behind that nice graphical install) It's also the implentation behind esr's latest project CML2 which is a build-time configurator for the linux kernel > I would venture to say that mod_perl > is in wider use than mod_python, if you're looking for web usage. There's also Zope, which is an application server written in python and provides it's own webserver and object persistence framework. Zope is sort of the cadillac of web programming environments, very nice but rather big and demanding of resources. > Does the concept of "tainted data" exist in python? Haven't looked into > it thoroughly yet. Are there any built in security features in python? What do you mean by "tainted data" I've heard the term before, but it was in Javascript context. There is a standard library module "rexec" which provides a restricted execution environment for executing untrusted code. As well as the standard regular expressions available for filtering out nasties from cgi input. Otherwise, it's up to you (doesn't matter what language). --larry
