Hiding modules

[Tommy Trojan]

Josiah,

thanks, I will check out your solution. It looks similar to an import hook
to me. There is still a problem that the user could just reset sys.modules
to his own dict.

Thanks,
  Thomas


"Josiah Carlson" <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> wrote in message
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>
> import sys
> import traceback
>
>
> class MyDict(UserDict):
>      def __getitem__(self, key):
>          try:
>              raise ""
>          except:
>              a = traceback.extract_stack()
>          #do all your call checking on a
>      #similar checks for __setitem__
>
> sys.modules = MyDict(sys.modules)
>
> Do as many checks on the caller that tries to access a module via
> sys.modules as you want.
>
> You could also replace new.module with similar attribute get and set
> permission checking, though my testing suggests that this may not be
> enough (perhaps import keeps a reference to the original version of
> new.module, or something).
>
>   - Josiah