Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sandboxed code is a real obvious one. > What is "sandboxed code"?
It's what the old rexec/bastion module tried unsuccessfully to implement: a way of running potentially hostile code while limiting the kinds of harmful stuff it can do. This is needed for things like browser applets. Javascript (not related to Java except by name) also depends on it. A web browser that let arbitrary web pages run python scripts would be totally insecure and would let the site implementers take over your browser. Obviously not every application needs this, but it's hard to do unless there's fairly deep support for it in the language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
