Lacking Rhoticity

Here is another problem with securing Python 3.0: PEP 3101 has extended format strings so that they contain an attribute access syntax. Th...

CapPython needs to block access to method functions. Luckily, one case is already covered by Python's unbound methods, but they are goi...

In my previous post, Introducing CapPython , I wrote that CapPython "does not yet block access to Python's builtin functions such a...

Python is not a language that provides encapsulation. That is, it does not enforce any difference between the private and public parts of a...

Python has some strange variable binding semantics. Here are some examples. Oddity 1: If Python were a normal lambda language, you would...