[Zope-dev] Introspection, managing External Methods?

Robin Becker robin@jessikat.demon.co.uk
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:24:27 +0100


In article <613145F79272D211914B0020AFF6401915C5FC@gandalf.digicool.com>
, Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com> writes
>
>Robin wrote:
>> Martijn wrote:
>> >There has been some talk about creating a scripting object that could
>> >contain Python code instead. This Python would then have to 
>> use the Zope
>> >built-in
>> >security mechanisms to ensure it can't do anything evil. 
>> This would be a
>> >rather
>> >marvellous thing to have, in my opinion.
>> 
>> this would be like java's sandbox approach or safe-tcl
>
>Just so everybody knows, it would have some obnoxious constraints, just
>like these two examples.  Think of it as midway between an expr and an
>External Method, erring on the side of the expr, as far as what was
>available.
>
>Gee, security, power, and simplicity go so well together. :^)
>
>--Paul
>
...
no disagreement from me.
-- 
Robin Becker