Python 2.7.8
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Python 2.7.8
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Re: Python 2.7.8
#2The website is new and rad since last time i visited
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#3They've really shinied up the web site since I last been there. I really like the ability to run Python in an interactive console on the home page too, with a live connection to an actual box on which you can actually run stuff.
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#4I think this is the first popular Python post with a version number I've seen that doesn't have a lot of comments about the Python 2 vs 3 "battle".
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#5The website is new and rad since last time i visited
Yup its the result of a design competition. Old relevant post from HN: http://grokcode.com/746/dear-python-why-are-you-so-ugly/
Re: Python 2.7.8
#6I think this is the first popular Python post with a version number I've seen that doesn't have a lot of comments about the Python 2 vs 3 "battle".
That's because this was posted 1h ago, come back in a couple hours.
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#7The website is new and rad since last time i visited
Yup its the result of a design competition. Old relevant post from HN: http://grokcode.com/746/dear-python-why-are-you-so-ugly/
While the process was competitive, it wasn't a "competition." There was a bidding process that several firms took part in.
Re: Python 2.7.8
#8Re: the arbitrary code execution in CGIHTTPServer.
CGIHTTPServer executes cgi files inside a folder specified at init. Its function for deciding what's inside the folder (to be executed) and what's outside (to be returned raw) is completely bust. If you urlencode the slashes you will confuse it enough to yield false negative/positive.
This means that if you are using CGIHTTPServer, anyone can execute anything that the web server was supposed to print, or get the source of any cgi script.
You should probably not be using CGIHTTPServer anyway.
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#9Somewhat related:
After nearly a year of very little activity, Jython finally has a 2.7 beta 2 version released recently, with a 2.7b3 release coming soon.
So, if you use Jython and you are sick of dealing with <=2.5 code, you should be in luck real soon.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup its the result of a design competition. Old relevant post from HN: http://grokcode.com/746/dear-python-why-are-you-so-ugly/
While the process was competitive, it wasn't a "competition." There was a bidding process that several firms took part in.
That, and the end result can hardly be called good - maybe it is better, maybe not, hard to say even that, but definitely not good, unfortunately.