automatically grading small programming assignments

[Brian Blais]

commander.coder at hotmail.com wrote:
> bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> Then on your PC you can
>> run a script that loads each of such programs, and runs a good series
>> of tests, to test their quality...
> What happens if someone-- perhaps not even someone in the class-- does
> some version of os.system('rm -Rf /') ?
> 

I was thinking of including a dummy os.py and sys.py, so import os, and import sys
would fail.  Would this work?  Is there anything else obvious.  I can have student
authentication, that's not a problem.


			bb


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