Guido van Rossum wrote:
[Jim]
You don't need restricted execution to make proxies work.
Um, I think that's a dangerous mistake, or a confusion in terminology.
All I'm saying is that the proxy mechanism itself doesn't rely on restricted execution.
Without restricted execution, untrusted code would have access to sys.modules, and from there it would be able to access removeAllProxies.
All we need to be able to do is control imports. It turns out that to prevent access to sys.modules, we have to replace __builtins__, which has the side-effect of enabling restricted execution. You don't need anything but the ability to restrict imports and other unproxied access to sys.modules to use proxies. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org