Paul Miller wrote: > Bastion and rexec have been deprecated since Python 2.2, so it seems > we (the Python community) have gotten along well enough without them. > Have these modules not been reimplemented because: > > a) There are no valid use cases for them. > b) Doing so would be difficult and prone to breakage as new features > are introduced into the language. > c) Nobody has any idea how to do it. > d) Nobody cares. > e) Guido thinks it's a bad idea. > > or, some combination of these? > All of the above except c) and d), I think.
You might like to Google for something like Brett Cannon secure Python to get up to speed on some work that may eventually result in Python acquiring a more security-minded framework. Bastion and rexec were so full of holes you could drive a London double-decker bus through them, so their deprecation and eventual exclusion was felt to be safer than leaving them in to be mistaken for secure code. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden ------------------ Asciimercial --------------------- Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag your way to fame!! holdenweb.blogspot.com squidoo.com/pythonology tagged items: del.icio.us/steve.holden/python All these services currently offer free registration! -------------- Thank You for Reading ---------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list