Whoa, whoa. What's the *problem* we're trying to solve here? On 7/14/06, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Ewing wrote: > > Maybe sys needs to be split into two modules, with > > the non-sensitive one pre-imported (so that the > > importless interpreter you suggest wouldn't be > > unnecessarily crippled). > > Maybe not splitting it, but providing a read-only mechanism of getting at > certain elements, with "import sys" still being the way of *modifying* any of > these things. > > Relatively safe items (could be provided as attributes and methods of a > read-only class instance in builtins instead of as a module): > > argv (as a tuple instead of a list) > byteorder > maxint > maxunicode > builtin_module_names > copyright > exc_info() > exec_prefix > executable > exit([arg]) > getdefaultencoding() > getfilesystemencoding() > getwindowsversion() > hexversion > platform > prefix > stdin > stdout > stderr > version > version_info > winver > > > Arguably privileged information (no real reason for non-privileged code to > know this stuff): > subversion > getcheckinterval() > getdlopenflags() > dllhandle > _current_frames() > getrefcount(object) > getrecursionlimit() > _getframe([depth]) > __displayhook__ > __excepthook__ > __stdin__ > __stdout__ > __stderr__ > api_version > warnoptions > tracebacklimit > displayhook(value) > excepthook(type, value, traceback) > ps1 > ps2 > > > Definitely privileged operations: > Actually *setting* any of the above to something different > modules > path > exc_clear() > setcheckinterval(interval) > setdefaultencoding(name) > setdlopenflags(n) > setprofile(profilefunc) > setrecursionlimit(limit) > settrace(tracefunc) > settscdump(on_flag) > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia > --------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.boredomandlaziness.org > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
