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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2022-05-06 02:53:00 (GMT)
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gh-57684: Document safe path in What's New in Python 3.11 (#92362)
Mention also -P and PYTHONSAFEPATH in the Security Considerations page.
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@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ New typing features:
* :pep:`673`: ``Self`` type.
* :pep:`675`: Arbitrary literal string type.
+Security improvements:
+
+* New :option:`-P` command line option and :envvar:`PYTHONSAFEPATH` environment
+ variable to not prepend a potentially unsafe path to :data:`sys.path` such as
+ the current directory, the script's directory or an empty string.
+
New Features
============