[Python-Dev] Re: Whither rexec?

[Guido van Rossum]

> If you only want to secure a few objects, then mxProxy can
> help you with this: it allows access management at C level
> on a per-method basis and also via callbacks...
> 
> 	http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxProxy.html

Zope3 has a similar proxy feature.  But I think that the safety of
proxies still relies on there not being backdoors, and the new-style
class code has added too many of those.

More on this thread later, when I have more bandwidth to deal with it.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)