[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Security use case
Ka-Ping Yee
python-dev at zesty.ca
Tue Mar 30 06:17:26 EST 2004
Here is an additional simple use case you could consider.
def private(cls):
def instantiate(*args, **kw):
return cls(*args, **kw)
return instantiate
class DontTouch [private]:
...
Inner scopes are one of the best places to hide things in Python;
they are very difficult to get at. (I can't seem to find any
special attributes that access the values inside them, and even
if there is a way, it would be easy to imagine a restricted
execution mode that wouldn't expose them.)
-- ?!ng
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