Question

I need to send code to remote clients to be executed in them but security is a concern for me right now. I don’t want unsafe code to be executed there so I would like to control what a program is doing. I mean for example, know if is making connections, where is connecting to, if is reading local files, etc. Is this possible with Python?

EDIT: I’m thinking in something similar to Android permission system. I want to know what a code will do and if it does something different, stop it.

Answer 1

You could use a different Python runtime:

• if you run your script using Jython; you can exploit Java’s permission system
• with Pypy’s sandboxed version you can choose what is allowed to run in your controller script