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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	gregory.p.smith, loewis, manis, ncoghlan
Date	2009-08-24.02:01:56
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Message-id	<1251079317.83.0.613030540168.issue6749@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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You would also run in to the usual problems with any form of DRM: the password will exist in memory in order for zipimport to be able to use it, so anyone that really wants the password will be able to get hold of it. It also isn't as simple as just providing a single password - there can be multiple zip files on sys.path, so how is Python meant to know which password goes with which zipfile? Another -1 here.

You would also run in to the usual problems with any form of DRM: the
password *will* exist in memory in order for zipimport to be able to use
it, so anyone that really wants the password will be able to get hold of it.

It also isn't as simple as just providing a single password - there can
be multiple zip files on sys.path, so how is Python meant to know which
password goes with which zipfile?

Another -1 here.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-08-24 02:01:57	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, loewis, gregory.p.smith, manis
2009-08-24 02:01:57	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1251079317.83.0.613030540168.issue6749@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-08-24 02:01:56	ncoghlan	link	issue6749 messages
2009-08-24 02:01:56	ncoghlan	create