On Jan 1, 2:55 pm, "Chris Rebert" <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:24 PM, excord80 <excor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2:37 pm, Kay Schluehr <kay.schlu...@gmx.net> wrote: > > >> There is no solution to this problem from a Python perspective. Do > >> what everyone does right now: [snip] > > > It still surprises me that no one has implemented the solution for > > this yet. > > > Maybe it's harder than it seems, but it *seeems* like it's just a > > matter of telling Firefox, "hey, when you see this special html > > element that tells you to run this python code from the web, do it". > > Then have FF load up a python interpreter, sandbox it somehow (that > > is, limit it to only a safe subset of its std lib), it runs the code > > The "sandbox it somehow" part is significantly harder than you seem to > believe it would be. Python tried previously with the rexec and > Bastion modules, but they were found to be irreparably flawed and thus > were removed.
Suppose you compiled a version with no file type and a reduced os module? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
