14.6. Restricted Execution
Throughout this text, we have used only normal, unrestricted execution which provides general access to all resources available to the Python interpreter. This includes, but is not limited to: disk file or database access, establishing network connections, invoking other programs, etc.
There may be circumstances in which you want to impose restrictions on Python programs which execute on your system. Scenarios which may require you to impose restrictions on some or all of the above include: Python CGI applications, environments which allow for upload and execution of Python scripts, anonymous FTP access which has installed the Python interpreter in the /bin directory, etc.
There are two primary modules which aid in ...
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