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10 years ago Author: mkaplan The solution that comes to mind is to add a command line argument to repy to explicitly allow a single built-in, and then call safe_check with those arguments.
The safe_check program would then parse those arguments and call a function in safe to allow the built-in.
This would require writing the command line parsing (with optparse) for the new argument and a function in safe.py to allow a built-in. Neither should be difficult.
Other solutions: With a single process-program, this would've been possible by modifying the safe that is imported by other modules. However, that is extremely messy, and would make maintenance more difficult. In any case, because safe_check runs as a separate process, that solution is not possible.
In Repy V2, adding items like safe._BUILTIN_OK.append("foo") does not work as expected. The reason is that safe_check also needs to be modified.
As a result, there is no good way to do something like add a command line option to repy that turns on / off the safety of some strings. This should really work with the dynamic settings that repy has in its context. I can think of hacked up ways to do this, but would prefer a suggestion that is clean and readable.