>>I guess they also have some kind of a sandbox if they let people run >>python on their machines, I'm not sure if it's open source though. > > Thing is, I'm sure that Google uses a critical backstop to any > Python-based sandbox: something like a chroot jail. The Python sandbox > is mostly there to inform you about what you can and can't do; the real > security is provided by the OS.
I see, makes perfect sense. This then raises the question whether it's important to have a 100% fool proof python sandbox without help from the OS, or this goal is not only too ambitious but also not really a useful one. One aspect might be that one might want to have a platform independent way of sandboxing, perhaps. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
