[Bf-committers] Python sandbox

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

In past discussions I had the impression that Blender's Python cannot  
be simply sandboxed because python.org doesn't cooperate with it.  
Second reason was that Blender apparently is one of the few apps  
embedding Python on such a level.

Philipp Guehring sent me these links and a suggestion:

http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-finished-securing-python.html
http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~drifty/papers/python_security.pdf
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/bcannon-objcap/
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/sandbox.html
http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2009/06/python-standard-library-in-native.html

Perhaps a Google SoC project to secure Blender's Python could help here.

-Ton-

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