Looking at the CERT Secure Standards (Example: https://www.securecoding.cert.org), there are specific standards, with great examples of what good and bad code looks like, for C, C++, Java, even Perl but not Python. Are there any Python specific standards are guidelines, preferably with examples available? http://www.pythonsecurity.org/ appears to be focused security concerns in Python itself and on building an alternative Python binary to resolve these. A noble, but not recently active, cause. I'm looking for something that gives guidance to developers on what not to do and what to do instead. Continue reading...
