Do you write Python software that uses a network, opens files, or even accepts user input?

Of course you do.

That's what almost all software does.

But these actions can let bad actors exploit mistakes and oversight.

We've made in our code that will allow them to compromise our systems.

Python is safer than some languages.

But there are plenty of issues to be careful of.

That's why Anthony Shaw and Anthony Langingsworth are here to discuss Python security.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 168, recorded June 28, 2018.

Thank you. Welcome to Talk Python to me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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at Talk Python. Anthony Shaw, Anthony Langhorst, welcome to Talk Python. Hey, Michael, it's great to be

back. Hey, Michael, I'm good to be my first time. Yeah, it's good to have you here. So we have a bit of a

name conflict here. So Anthony Shaw's aunt and Anthony Langsworth is Anthony for the rest of the show.

Hopefully that works for you all out there listening. And we're going to cover something that I think

is often overlooked in Python, the whole security side of things, right? I mean,

feel like, well, there's no buffer overflow issues and, you know, things like that. So we must be

just totally fine, right? No. If only that was the case. If only that was the case.

Exactly. There's actually a ton of interesting vulnerabilities and things that are pretty common, I suspect,

still in some circumstances that we're going to go through. But before we do, I'd like to

hear your guys story really quick. Anthony, how do you get into programming and Python?

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