On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Anyway it looks like if someone wants to try this, only the code in > > runpy.py needs to be touched. > > The necessary work would actually be in zipimport. runpy doesn't know > anything about the details of where the module code comes from, it just > asks the relevant importer for the details. For zipfile and directory > execution, they get added to the start of sys.path and then runpy is > invoked to look for the module "__main__". From that point on most of > the heavy lifting is handled by the regular import machinery (aside from > using the pkgutil emulation for the basic import behaviour that isn't > fully exposed by the imp module). > > I added a -1 to the tracker issue as well. That's due both to my opinion > on the inherent idiocy of DRM though (since shared secrets don't provide > any security when the attacker in your threat model is one of the people > you are sharing the secret with) and to the fact that associating > passwords with the relevant zipfile entries on sys.path would get messy > fairly quickly. > > Cheers. > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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/shashank.sunny.singh%40gmail.com > -- Regards Shashank Singh Senior Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay shashank.sunny.si...@gmail.com http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~shashanksingh
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