alt Hacker NewsFWIW, some distributions (I forget which ones, but I've seen it more than once) compile bash without the network features. Python is ubiquitous, and I've never seen it subsetted this way, so I'd have sided with the coworker.
FWIW, some distributions (I forget which ones, but I've seen it more than once) compile bash without the network features. Python is ubiquitous, and I've never seen it subsetted this way, so I'd have sided with the coworker.
Eh, looking around, I think you're thinking of Debian. They re-enabled it by-default back in 2009. So, sure, I guess. But if you're dealing with an OS that's from 2009 these days, whether /dev/tcp is enabled in bash or not isn't exactly relevant anymore. And I've seen enough broken python installs (even with stdlib) to put my faith in /dev/tcp working in bash :)