[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Security use case
Jeremy Hylton
jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Tue Mar 30 09:06:24 EST 2004
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 06:17, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> 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.)
It's by design that there is no meta way to get at bindings for free
variables. I don't think I said anything about at in the PEP, but I was
thinking of JAR's thesis (http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/).
Jeremy
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