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Re: CodeSkulptor

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>>>I think it's not a bug, but a restriction; since it's letting you run
>>>>code on their server, and since Python sandboxing is a hard problem,
>>>>CodeSkulptor cuts down the available modules. From the docs:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.codeskulptor.org/docs.html#tabs-Python
>
> Excluding datetime seems rather extreme to me.

By the look of their docs, they've actually gone the other way: it's
not that they've excluded datetime, but that they've carefully vetted
a specific set of modules (and maybe not all functionality in them)
and that's all they support. In any case, I think that as soon as you
hit an ImportError on the sandbox, you should go and download Python
for your desktop and start working there.

(Idea, for anyone who runs a sandbox like that: Enumerate all packages
and modules in the stdlib, and create a little stub for each of them.
"import blahblah" will still produce ImportError, but "import
datetime" could report back "This interpreter is working with a small
subset of the Python standard library" rather than leaving us
wondering if there was some weird copy/paste error in the import line.
And yes, I did test for that.)

ChrisA

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CodeSkulptor Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-03 21:06 -0400
  Re: CodeSkulptor Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-04 02:21 +0100
  Re: CodeSkulptor Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-04 11:29 +1000
    Re: CodeSkulptor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 11:43 +1000
      Re: CodeSkulptor Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-03 22:08 -0400
        Re: CodeSkulptor Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-03 22:38 -0400
          Re: CodeSkulptor Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-04 13:03 +1000
            Re: CodeSkulptor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 13:09 +1000
            Re: CodeSkulptor Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-04 14:39 +0200
            Re: CodeSkulptor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 00:18 +1000
          Re: CodeSkulptor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 13:05 +1000
        Re: CodeSkulptor Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 10:26 +0200
    Re: CodeSkulptor Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-03 21:41 -0400
      Re: CodeSkulptor Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-04 02:56 +0100
        Re: CodeSkulptor Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-03 22:07 -0400
          Re: CodeSkulptor Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-04 03:02 -0400

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