Security vulnerability in str.format in Python

This should have been obvious to me for a longer time, but until earlier
today I did not really realize the severity of the issues caused by
str.format on untrusted user input. It came up as a way to bypass the
Jinja2 Sandbox in a way that would permit r…

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