Article 5S05A [$] Trojan Source and Python

[$] Trojan Source and Python

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jake
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The Trojan Source vulnerabilities have beenrippling through various developmentcommunities since their disclosure on November 1. The oddities that can arise when handling Unicode, andbidirectional Unicode in particular, in a programming language have led Rust, forexample, to check forthe problematic code points in strings and comments and, by default,refuse to compile if they are present. Python has chosen a different path,but work is underway to help inform programmers of the kinds of pitfalls thatTrojan Source has highlighted.
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