[Python-checkins] r73158 - peps/trunk/pep-0383.txt

Tue Jun 2 23:43:06 CEST 2009

Author: martin.v.loewis
Date: Tue Jun 2 23:43:06 2009
New Revision: 73158
Log:
Fix grammar. Reported by R. David Murray.
Modified:
 peps/trunk/pep-0383.txt
Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0383.txt
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--- peps/trunk/pep-0383.txt	(original)
+++ peps/trunk/pep-0383.txt	Tue Jun 2 23:43:06 2009
@@ -104,16 +104,17 @@
 Data obtained from other sources may conflict with data produced
 by this PEP. Dealing with such conflicts is out of scope of the PEP.
 
-This PEP allows to "smuggle" bytes in character strings. This would
-be a security risk if the bytes are security-critical when interpreted
-as characters on a target system, such as path name separators. For
-this reason, the PEP rejects smuggling bytes below 128. If the target
-system uses EBCDIC, such smuggled bytes may still a security risk,
-allowing to smuggle, e.g. square brackets or the backslash. Python
-currently does not support EBCDIC, so this should not be a problem in
-practice. Anybody porting Python to an EBCDIC system might want to
-adjust the error handlers, or come up with other approaches to address
-the security risks.
+This PEP allows the possibility of "smuggling" bytes in character
+strings. This would be a security risk if the bytes are
+security-critical when interpreted as characters on a target system,
+such as path name separators. For this reason, the PEP rejects
+smuggling bytes below 128. If the target system uses EBCDIC, such
+smuggled bytes may still be a security risk, allowing smuggling of
+e.g. square brackets or the backslash. Python currently does not
+support EBCDIC, so this should not be a problem in practice. Anybody
+porting Python to an EBCDIC system might want to adjust the error
+handlers, or come up with other approaches to address the security
+risks.
 
 Encodings that are not compatible with ASCII are not supported by
 this specification; bytes in the ASCII range that fail to decode
