eval to dict problems NEWB going crazy !

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ant wrote:

> So how do python app's typically embed python? For example things like
> Zope and idle are scripted using Python - presumably they restrict the
> execution of the scripts to a restricted set of modules/objects - but
> how is this done?

why?  anyone capable of adding code to idle already has access to 
everything that code can access...

> Perhaps idle doesn't require safety from untrusted code, but surely
> Zope does. So there must be some way of executing arbitrary untrusted
> code in an app within some kind of sandbox...

afaik, zope uses a custom parser.

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