Embedding Python the extreme way

[Gerhard Haering]

In article <3D2C2BEB.2040803 at darkstargames.de>, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
>> For getting rid of builtin functions, why bother?
> Because some of them can mess up all.

Don't you provide the Python scripts yourself? If you want to expose your
app to users and you want to restrict what they can do with the
interpreter, you can check out the rexec and Bastion modules.

Basically forking the Python source sounds like overkill.

Gerhard
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