restricted environment

[K.S.Sreeram]

Gabriele *darkbard* Farina wrote:
> The first attempt to reach my goal was to override the __import__
> function to limit it working on modules that can be used and on custom
> import directories that can be accessed. Then I executed the scripts
> using exec. There is any security problem related to this solution ?

This won't work. Creating a secure restricted execution environment is
very hard. FYI, there is an ongoing discussion on python-dev about a new
attempt at something like rexec for python 2.6+.

[sreeram;]

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