[Python-Dev] Direction of PyChecker

[Guido van Rossum]

> [Off topic] The same seems to be true for pydoc in http-serving mode.
> It just imports any .py on sys.path, when doco is requested for it.
> Although pydoc is *really* cool, this aspect scares me a bit...
> (I guess if the port pydoc is listening to is visible from the outside
> world, it better run as a user with very limited permissions, right?)

Yes, this bothers me greatly.  I hope that someone will fix this.

> (Hm, that makes me think that it may be a good practice to name scripts
> that are not supposed to be imported so that they *can't* be imported?)

Indeedy!  (Or make sure they're noy on sys.path. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)