Creating a reliable sandboxed Python environment

[Paul Rubin]

Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:
>> The language features are an orthogonal issue to embeddability.
> I doubt that. Guile is designed for embedding but it is a full-fledged
> Scheme implementation.

Orthogonal means independent, not opposing.

> I have very little experience with Lua. What surprises me is that it is
> not as elementary as it could be: I don't really see the value of
> metatables and weak tables.

It lets you implement various flavors of OOP etc. without different
language mechanisms.