Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Jun 23 02:01:46 EDT 2003

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Gerhard Häring <gh at ghaering.de> writes:

> You may have noticed that rexec was pulled under 2.2.3 because it
> currently isn't safe. AFAIR the reason it became unsafe was new-style
> classes.
> 
> My question is wether falling back to Python 2.1 will make rexec safe again.

I think it is not. It appears that it would suffer from SF bug
#577530, which was fixed in rexec.py 1.41. It also suffers from SF bug
#533625.

IOW, rexec was never safe.

Regards,
Martin

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