[Python-Dev] Restricted interpreter

kapil thangavelu kvthan@wm.edu
Sat, 9 Nov 2002 01:44:22 -0800


there are some similarities here to what zope does (ie fine grained security 
for untrusted code). so another option might be to use 

http://cvs.zope.org/Zope3/lib/python/Zope/Security/

and execute online code in a restricted sandbox of the interpreter.

-kapil

On Friday 08 November 2002 12:04 pm, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> This weekend I'm going to work on a "restricted" python interpreter for
> http://acm.uva.es/problemset/. That site offers online programming
> contests, including an online judge to check algorithm implementations
> for hundreds of problems. I belive it'd be nice for the Python community
> to have access to something like that.
>