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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-17 09:37:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-17 09:37:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 7716ca6cdd441de704d51e23491f07259bb8c344 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c47cc7b2790f17c4c4bb038a20f202a471183f4 | |
| parent | 96115fb2d3513f539d6870349013b3bec87d959f (diff) | |
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#8855: add shelve security warning.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/shelve.rst b/Doc/library/shelve.rst index 0252597..f5374c9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shelve.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shelve.rst @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ lots of shared sub-objects. The keys are ordinary strings. :meth:`close` explicitly when you don't need it any more, or use a :keyword:`with` statement with :func:`contextlib.closing`. +.. warning:: + + Because the :mod:`shelve` module is backed by :mod:`pickle`, it is insecure + to load a shelf from an untrusted source. Like with pickle, loading a shelf + can execute arbitrary code. Shelf objects support all methods supported by dictionaries. This eases the transition from dictionary based scripts to those requiring persistent storage. |