[Python-Dev] Security capabilities in Python

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, James Y Knight wrote:
> You can protect against this, too, but it does show that it's *really*
> hard to get restricting code right...

Good point.  If you can't trust ==, then you're hosed.

> I'm of the opinion that it's not
> really worth it -- you should just use OS protections.

This i disagree with, however.  OS protections are a few orders of
magnitude more heavyweight and vastly more error-prone than using a
language with simple, clear semantics.

Predictable code behaviour is good.


-- ?!ng