Re: [pygame] Scripting language

[Bob the Hamster <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Quoting Brandon N <kordova@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >    This is not strictly a pygame question though it does relate to my  
> > use of pygame in general. What have people used for scripting  
> > languages in Python? I suppose I could use Python itself but I do not  
> > want to expose anything through the use of eval or otherwise  
> > (currently I am doing just about this). While I do not want to write  
> > a language from scratch, I do have a simple Lisp implementation that  
> > I could expose.

I have read a lot about this, and the general consensus seems to be 
that if you are worried about security, there is no known safe easy way 
to embed python-in-python. That conclusion surprises and disappoints me, 
but I can find no reliable information that contraticts it :(

Some unsatisfactory workarounds can be found at:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/How_can_I_run_an_untrusted_Python_script_safely_(i.e._Sandbox)

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Bob the Hamster