[Python-Dev] doc for new restricted execution design for Python (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 19:06:27 CEST 2006

On 6/27/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

My worry with this is that by providing checking functions that just return true or false that people will rely on those too much and have logic errors in their check and let security holes develop. That is why the checking functions as they stand now are macros that do the error return for you.

Using a macro that returns an Error is OK. (Well, from this perspective; it might be a problem for reference leaks.)

I just want a single call that does my erroring out, instead of two separate calls depending on whether the interpreter is trusted.

-jJ

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