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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject: Re: Creating a reliable sandboxed Python environment
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In a message of Tue, 26 May 2015 17:10:30 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes:
>My sense is that the only way to safely sandbox Python is to create your own 
>Python implementation designed with security in mind. You can't get there 
>starting from CPython. Maybe Jython?

You get there starting with PyPy.
see: http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/sandbox.html

Note: this is not very heavily used.  You may find bugs we don't
know about yet.

Laura