[Bf-committers] Re: Blender 2.42 Web Browser Plugin

[Joe Eagar]

erwin at erwincoumans.com wrote:
>
> The Python sandbox is still active. Python can only import the 4 
> built-in modules.
> Support would be nice indeed, but same goes for the regular gameplayer :)
> Erwin
I know the rexec module was deprecated and was not working, in 2003 or 
2002.  A simple functionality to disable file functionality, most of the 
sys module, remove all other modules except a few like math, would 
provide some security.  However, python has never been audited for 
potential buffer overruns and other security holes, which is why the 
sandbox is not officially support anymore.

Also see 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-August/028363.html .

One solution would be to implement an interface between the game engine 
python API and JPython.  since JPython compiles to Java, it'd be running 
in its own virtual machine.  But I have no idea how difficult this would 
be.  Google came up with http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jni/ 
as a possibility.

Joe