[Python-Dev] Handling of sys.args (Re: User's complaints) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 12:09:02 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

Maybe sys needs to be split into two modules, with the non-sensitive one pre-imported (so that the importless interpreter you suggest wouldn't be unnecessarily crippled).

Maybe not splitting it, but providing a read-only mechanism of getting at certain elements, with "import sys" still being the way of modifying any of these things.

Relatively safe items (could be provided as attributes and methods of a read-only class instance in builtins instead of as a module):

argv (as a tuple instead of a list) byteorder maxint maxunicode builtin_module_names copyright exc_info() exec_prefix executable exit([arg]) getdefaultencoding() getfilesystemencoding() getwindowsversion() hexversion platform prefix stdin stdout stderr version version_info winver

Arguably privileged information (no real reason for non-privileged code to know this stuff): subversion getcheckinterval() getdlopenflags() dllhandle _current_frames() getrefcount(object) getrecursionlimit() _getframe([depth]) displayhook excepthook stdin stdout stderr api_version warnoptions tracebacklimit displayhook(value) excepthook(type, value, traceback) ps1 ps2

Definitely privileged operations: Actually setting any of the above to something different modules path exc_clear() setcheckinterval(interval) setdefaultencoding(name) setdlopenflags(n) setprofile(profilefunc) setrecursionlimit(limit) settrace(tracefunc) settscdump(on_flag)

Cheers, Nick.

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