On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Nick Coghlan
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Anyway it looks like if someone wants to try this, only the code in runpy.py needs to be touched.
The necessary work would actually be in zipimport. runpy doesn't know anything about the details of where the module code comes from, it just asks the relevant importer for the details. For zipfile and directory execution, they get added to the start of sys.path and then runpy is invoked to look for the module "__main__". From that point on most of the heavy lifting is handled by the regular import machinery (aside from using the pkgutil emulation for the basic import behaviour that isn't fully exposed by the imp module).
I added a -1 to the tracker issue as well. That's due both to my opinion on the inherent idiocy of DRM though (since shared secrets don't provide any security when the attacker in your threat model is one of the people you are sharing the secret with) and to the fact that associating passwords with the relevant zipfile entries on sys.path would get messy fairly quickly.
Cheers. Nick.
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