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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Jul 14 23:36:07 CEST 2006

On 7/14/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On 7/14/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > On 7/14/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > > Whoa, whoa. What's the problem we're trying to solve here? > > I have a use case for sandboxing. I am already having to plan to have a > mini-sys module in a sandbox so that they cannot get access to dangerous > things. OK, then I propose that we wait to see which things you end up having to provide to sandboxed code, rather than trying to analyze it to death in abstracto.

Fine by me. My design doc already has a preliminary list going that people can take a look at. But it could still change if security analysis shows possible problems with exposing some of them.

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