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Author	gvanrossum
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Date	2000-09-19.01:30:49
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Marshal is not very careful in validating its input -- it was written for speedy reading of .pyc files only. I agree that this should be fixed. Since a spurious '0' input character probably isn't the only bad input that it might choke on (it could even dump core!) I'm not going to fix this, but I'll add a feature request to PEP 42: better checking for bad input to marshal.load*().

Marshal is not very careful in validating its input -- it was written for speedy reading of .pyc files only. I agree that this should be fixed. Since a spurious '0' input character probably isn't the only bad input that it might choke on (it could even dump core!) I'm not going to fix this, but I'll add a feature request to PEP 42: better checking for bad input to marshal.load*().

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007-08-23 13:50:37	admin	link	issue214754 messages
2007-08-23 13:50:37	admin	create