Re: [pygame] python, games and the web.

["campbell barton" <ideasman@linuxmail.org>]

For the security issue, could I not just disable some python commands?
I have no idea when it comes to security, but might you ba able to search a '.py' file for commands that are dis-allowed?
Any '.py' file that used these commands could then be kicked out of the game.

The person I am working with wants to use flash because there are a lot of jobs using flash, more then with python/pygame
I use flash in my job at the moment, but I would rather use python.

An option I am also considering is to make a 'simple' python interpreter IN FLASH, This would be fun, but getting python to a useable level would be darn hard.


> campbell barton wrote:
> > Hi All. I am seriously looking at making a 'program your robot' (ROBOSOCCER) type game in python for a major assignment at school.
> > While I would love to use pygame, I would like this game to be played over the web, in a browser window without any uncommon plugins.
> 
> it will be tough to make the game work 'applet'-y. if you plan to go 
> with straight python and pygame i think you'll really want to create a 
> standalone client, then associate the client with file extension like 
> .PYROBOT or .PYROBOTSERVER. then when a user clicks on whatver links you 
> have for the robots it should be able to automatically open the client 
> in a window or whatever.
> 
> your biggest challenge will be a way to run untrusted python code on 
> either the client or server. this is also probably the most difficult 
> problem for creating a 'pygame applet environment'. your best bet might 
> be to stick with python2.1 where the Rexec and Bastion modules were 
> deemed 'pretty good', but far from battle tested. in more recent 
> python's these security modules have been deemed worthless. (apparently 
> new-style classes defeat the security they provided. i believe they are 
> removed from 2.3?) even if you get the code code into a completely 
> sandboxed environment, it is rediculously hard to prevent client code 
> like this, """while 1: pass""". you could try for python threads, but 
> currently python threads have no way to stop a running thread.
> 

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