From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T22:42:15+09:00
Subject: Re: possibly bulletproof eval()

On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:51 AM, Giles Bowkett wrote:

> As you can see the whole thing depends massively on eval().

I see you've already got the answers on eval(), which I completely  
agree with.

> Each image now being represented on the filesystem with
> "xyz_square.jpg" will soon become the square attribute of an ImageFile
> object. This isn't the cleanest design, but it beats the filesystem
> version for my purposes (load-balance-ability and hardware stability).

My database teacher use to harp on and on about how file data  
belonged in the file system (not a database).  His primary reasoning  
was that you can't meaningfully query it so you don't gain anything  
from the database structure.  I've also found that things get  
complicated as soon as I have a large enough file stored in a database.

Just my two cents.

James Edward Gray II