Replacement for rexec/Bastion?

[Michael Hudson]

"Colin Coghill (SFive)" <mugginsm at under-the-fridge.com> writes:

> >> Is Python (preferably CPython 2.3) still able to "sandbox" bits of code
> >> under an application provided API safely?
> > 
> > replacement available or even on the horizon. Zope's RestrictedPython
> > is the closest thing there is... a quick summary of its approach was
> > posted to python-dev today: 
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-August/037791.html
> 
> 
> Thanks, that looks interesting. I had seen mention of it but hadn't 
> realised it wasn't just rexec behind the scenes.

Umm... it's not.  Unless I misunterstand you and/or the referenced
mail to python-dev.

Cheers,
mwh

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