Is there a way to block Python from accessing the hard drive and database? I want to do something similar to an AWS Lambda function where the code is totally isolated (except perhaps for internet access).
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How to block Python from reading hard drive or database
Do you want to build something like that on PythonAnywhere?
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No. I keep stressing out about security holes in my app and I'd rather have fine-grained controls over which modules/functions can do disk I/O. (Actually, it's kind of a criticism of Python itself. It would be nice to have a @cannot_access_disk decorator in Python that just throws an exception if the function attempts any disk I/O.)
Unfortunately I don't think there's any way to do that with Python; when we started building PythonAnywhere way back, we tried to work out a way to do it -- we felt it would be easier than building sandboxes at the OS level -- but we couldn't find anything. I've been monitoring for some way to do it since then, and nothing has popped up.
