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[Python-Dev] Capabilities in Python

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sun, 09 Mar 2003 07:03:18 -0500 
[Jim]
> You don't need restricted execution to make proxies work.

Um, I think that's a dangerous mistake, or a confusion in terminology.

Without restricted execution, untrusted code would have access to
sys.modules, and from there it would be able to access
removeAllProxies.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)