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  Re: An unusual question... <wisecracker@tesco.net> - 2011-04-18 10:53 +0100
    Re: An unusual question... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-18 11:56 +0000

#3478 — Re: An unusual question...

Hi Chris...

> It sounds to me like you're trying to pull off a classic buffer
> overrun and remote code execution exploit, in someone else's Python
> program. And all I have to say is.... Good luck to you.

Talking of nefarious usage...

I wonder what this would do left unchecked on a current machine and current Python install...

###

global somestring
somestring = " "

while 1:
        #print somestring
        somestring = somestring + " "

###



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On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:53:00 +0100, wisecracker wrote:

> global somestring
> somestring = " "

You don't need to declare a name in the global scope as global. It just 
is global.


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Steven

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