[Python-Dev] Re: Un-stalling Berkeley DB support

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Gregory P . Smith wrote:

> Out of curiosity, I just made a version of py-bsddb3 that uses SWIG
> v1.3alpha3 instead of SWIG v1.1-883.  It looks like 1.3a3 is still
> using strings for pointerish things.  One thing to note that may calm
> some peoples sense of "eww gross, pointer strings" is that programmers
> should never see them.  They are "hidden" behind the python shadow class.
> The pointer strings are only contained within the shadow objects "this"
> member.

It's not "ewww gross", it's "dangerous!". This makes Python "not safe",
since users can access random memory location.
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