Working with untrusted coders

[Alex Martelli]

Arnau Rosselló Castelló wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to develop a MUD, and i wat thinking that python would be a good
> language to make it, but such a MUD would have many coders whom i don't
> trust completely, and i'd like to restrict his access. Python security
> about private elements and others is merely a "don't step on the grass"
> sign, everybody can change private functions and data in classes and even
> modules. I'd like to know if there is some way of really securing python,
> so parts of the code can't be overriden by the coders. Has anybody tried

Have a look at modules rexec and Bastion, and more generally at
"Restricted Execution" in Python -- that's what it's for.


Alex