Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Guido, do you have any thoughts on this?
Several of us (me included) think http://hg.python.org/lookup/c0d25de5919e probably should not have been done. Mutating non-heap types crosses an implicit boundary that we've long resisted crossing because it opens a can worms and has potential to violate our expectations about how the language works. [Mark Shannon] > Breaking the interpreter in order to facilitate some obscure use case is > unacceptable. [Marc-Andre Lemburg] I agree with Mark. This feature opens up a security hole large enough to drive a train through. [Benjamin Peterson] Probably the patch on that bug should be reverted. [Larry Hastings] As Python 3.5 Release Manager, my official statement is: Eek! ---------- assignee: -> Guido.van.Rossum nosy: +Guido.van.Rossum, rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24912> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
