I've received some enthusiastic emails from someone who wants to
revive restricted mode. He started out with a bunch of patches to the
CPython runtime using ctypes, which he attached to an App Engine bug:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=671
Based on his code (the file secure.py is all you need, included in
secure.tar.gz) it seems he believes the only security leaks are
__subclasses__, gi_frame and gi_code. (I have since convinced him that
if we add "restricted" guards to these attributes, he doesn't need the
functions added to sys.)
I don't recall the exploits that Samuele once posted that caused the
death of rexec.py -- does anyone recall, or have a pointer to the
threads?
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Alright, I will re-submit with the contents pasted. I never use double
backquotes as I think them rather ugly; that is the work of an editor
or some automated program in the chain. Plus, it also messed up my
line formatting and now I have lines with one word on them... Anyway,
the contents of PEP 3145:
PEP: 3145
Title: Asynchronous I/O For subprocess.Popen
Author: (James) Eric Pruitt, Charles R. McCreary, Josiah Carlson
Type: Standards Track
Content-Type: text/plain
Created: 04-Aug-2009
Python-Version: 3.2
Abstract:
In its present form, the subprocess.Popen implementation is prone to
dead-locking and blocking of the parent Python script while waiting on data
from the child process.
Motivation:
A search for "python asynchronous subprocess" will turn up numerous
accounts of people wanting to execute a child process and communicate with
it from time to time reading only the data that is available instead of
blocking to wait for the program to produce data [1] [2] [3]. The current
behavior of the subprocess module is that when a user sends or receives
data via the stdin, stderr and stdout file objects, dead locks are common
and documented [4] [5]. While communicate can be used to alleviate some of
the buffering issues, it will still cause the parent process to block while
attempting to read data when none is available to be read from the child
process.
Rationale:
There is a documented need for asynchronous, non-blocking functionality in
subprocess.Popen [6] [7] [2] [3]. Inclusion of the code would improve the
utility of the Python standard library that can be used on Unix based and
Windows builds of Python. Practically every I/O object in Python has a
file-like wrapper of some sort. Sockets already act as such and for
strings there is StringIO. Popen can be made to act like a file by simply
using the methods attached the the subprocess.Popen.stderr, stdout and
stdin file-like objects. But when using the read and write methods of
those options, you do not have the benefit of asynchronous I/O. In the
proposed solution the wrapper wraps the asynchronous methods to mimic a
file object.
Reference Implementation:
I have been maintaining a Google Code repository that contains all of my
changes including tests and documentation [9] as well as blog detailing
the problems I have come across in the development process [10].
I have been working on implementing non-blocking asynchronous I/O in the
subprocess.Popen module as well as a wrapper class for subprocess.Popen
that makes it so that an executed process can take the place of a file by
duplicating all of the methods and attributes that file objects have.
There are two base functions that have been added to the subprocess.Popen
class: Popen.send and Popen._recv, each with two separate implementations,
one for Windows and one for Unix based systems. The Windows
implementation uses ctypes to access the functions needed to control pipes
in the kernel 32 DLL in an asynchronous manner. On Unix based systems,
the Python interface for file control serves the same purpose. The
different implementations of Popen.send and Popen._recv have identical
arguments to make code that uses these functions work across multiple
platforms.
When calling the Popen._recv function, it requires the pipe name be
passed as an argument so there exists the Popen.recv function that passes
selects stdout as the pipe for Popen._recv by default. Popen.recv_err
selects stderr as the pipe by default. "Popen.recv" and "Popen.recv_err"
are much easier to read and understand than "Popen._recv('stdout' ..." and
"Popen._recv('stderr' ..." respectively.
Since the Popen._recv function does not wait on data to be produced
before returning a value, it may return empty bytes. Popen.asyncread
handles this issue by returning all data read over a given time
interval.
The ProcessIOWrapper class uses the asyncread and asyncwrite functions to
allow a process to act like a file so that there are no blocking issues
that can arise from using the stdout and stdin file objects produced from
a subprocess.Popen call.
References:
[1] [ python-Feature Requests-1191964 ] asynchronous Subprocess
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2006-December/
036524.html
[2] Daily Life in an Ivory Basement : /feb-07/problems-with-subprocess
http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/feb-07/problems-with-subprocess
[3] How can I run an external command asynchronously from Python? - Stack
Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/636561/how-can-i-run-an-external-
command-asynchronously-from-python
[4] 18.1. subprocess - Subprocess management - Python v2.6.2 documentation
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.wait
[5] 18.1. subprocess - Subprocess management - Python v2.6.2 documentation
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.kill
[6] Issue 1191964: asynchronous Subprocess - Python tracker
http://bugs.python.org/issue1191964
[7] Module to allow Asynchronous subprocess use on Windows and Posix
platforms - ActiveState Code
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440554/
[8] subprocess.rst - subprocdev - Project Hosting on Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/subprocdev/source/browse/doc/subprocess.rst?spec=s…
[9] subprocdev - Project Hosting on Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/subprocdev
[10] Python Subprocess Dev
http://subdev.blogspot.com/
Copyright:
This P.E.P. is licensed under the Open Publication License;
http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 22:56, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin(a)python.org> wrote:
> 2009/9/7 Eric Pruitt <eric.pruitt(a)gmail.com>:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been working on adding asynchronous I/O to the Python
>> subprocess module as part of my Google Summer of Code project. Now
>> that I have finished documenting and pruning the code, I present PEP
>> 3145 for its inclusion into the Python core code. Any and all feedback
>> on the PEP (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3145/) is appreciated.
>
> Hi Eric,
> One of the reasons you're not getting many response is that you've not
> pasted the contents of the PEP in this message. That makes it really
> easy for people to comment on various sections.
>
> BTW, it seems like you were trying to use reST formatting with the
> text PEP layout. Double backquotes only mean something in reST.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Benjamin
>
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A Solaris installation contains ALWAYS 32 and 64 bits libraries. So in
any Solaris you can run 32/64 bits programs, and compile in 32 and 64 bits.
For this, libraries are stores in "/usr/lib", for instance, for 32 bits,
while the same 64 bits libraries are stored in "/usr/lib/64".
Currently, python do not considerate this.
We have Solaris 10 buildslaves, but they compile in 32 bits, aparently.
For instance
<http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/sparc%20solaris10%20gcc%203…>.
We now have 32 and 64 bits OpenIndiana buildslaves, so we can actually
check this. They were deployed yesterday.
Apparently the changes would be pretty simple, adding ".../64" to
library paths, to try to find the extra libraries.
What do you think?.
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I have installed GDB 7.2 32 bits and 32 bits buildslaves are green.
Nevertheless 64 bits buildslaves are failing test_gdb.
Is there any expectation that a 32 bits GDB be able to debug a 64 bits
python?. If not, gdb test should compare "platform.architecture()" (for
python and gdb in the system) and run only when they are the same. If
this should work, I would open a bug and maybe spend some time with it.
But before thinking about investing time, I would like to know if this
mix is actually expected or not to work.
If not, I would consider to install a 64 bits GDB too and do some tricks
(like using an "/usr/local/bin/gdb" script wrapper to choose 32/64
"real" gdb version) to actually execute "test_gdb" in both buildslaves
(they are running in the same physical machine).
Any advice?
PS: I am talking about AMD64 OpenIndiana buildbots. Haven't check others.
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Which I noticed since it's cited in the BeOpen license we still refer
to in LICENSE. Since pythonlabs.com itself is still up, it probably
isn't much work to make the logos.html URI work again, but I don't know
who maintains that page.
cheer,
Georg
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Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the number of thy
indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent, nor either indent thou
two, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Tabs are right out.
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Current Python lacks support for "aio_*" syscalls to do async IO. I
think this could be a nice addition for python 3.3.
If you agree, I will create an issue in the tracker. If you think the
idea is of no value, please say so for me to move on. Maybe an 3th party
module, but I think this functionality sould be available in core python.
Thanks!.
PS: The function calls are: aio_cancel, aio_error, aio_fsync, aio_read,
aio_return, aio_write.
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Hi,
Just to let you know that we now have 8 stable buildbots, including
Barry's own PPC Ubuntu machine (even though the Windows buildbots give
a rather unconventional meaning to the word "stability").
Right now they are mostly green:
http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/waterfall?category=3.x.stable
cheers
Antoine.
Two recently reported issues brought into light the fact that Python
language definition is closely tied to character properties maintained
by the Unicode Consortium. [1,2] For example, when Python switches to
Unicode 6.0.0 (planned for the upcoming 3.2 release), we will gain two
additional characters that Python can use in identifiers. [3]
With Python 3.1:
>>> exec('\u0CF1 = 1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1
ೱ = 1
^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier
but with Python 3.2a4:
>>> exec('\u0CF1 = 1')
>>> eval('\u0CF1')
1
Of course, the likelihood is low that this change will affect any
user, but the change in str.isspace() reported in [1] is likely to
cause some trouble:
Python 2.6.5:
>>> u'A\u200bB'.split()
[u'A', u'B']
Python 2.7:
>>> u'A\u200bB'.split()
[u'A\u200bB']
While we have little choice but to follow UCD in defining
str.isidentifier(), I think Python can promise users more stability in
what it treats as space or as a digit in its builtins. For example,
I don't think that supporting
>>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦')
1234.56
is more important than to assure users that once their program
accepted some text as a number, they can assume that the text is
ASCII.
[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue10567
[2] http://bugs.python.org/issue10557
[3] http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/#Database_Changes
+zlib
+----
+
+The :mod:`zlib` extension is built using an included copy of the zlib
+sources unless the zlib version found on the system is too old to be
+used for the build::
Unless or if? Building with an included copy *if* the system one is too
old makes sense to me, not the contrary. Am I not seeing something?
Regards
