open == file considered harmful (Re: [Python-Dev] RE: rexec.pyunuseable)

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au>:

> What if instead of 'builtin behaves differently in restricted mode' we 
> had 'restricted __builtins__ contains a DIFFERENT builtin, that happens 
> to have the same name'?

That wouldn't solve the file problem, because if the restricted
code ever got hold of a file object created by unrestricted code,
it would have access to the "real" file class which can open
any file.

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