Share the python Engine

[NoelJacob]

Is there a way for compiling the freezed and initialised python engine wasm and run arbritary script at runtime? Or run a somehow compiled script at runtime? I am basically looking for a python intrepreter sandboxing option.

[zshipko]

That is a neat idea! For now, I think you could just run eval/exec from inside a plugin. We've also been discussing ways of supporting something like this using a dynamically linked runtime, but haven't really started on that yet.

[nilslice]

@zshipko, this would mean the input passed into the plugin.call from the host would actually be the Python code to eval/exec correct?

[zshipko]

Yeah thanks for clarifying, the Python code would be the input to a plugin function that passes it to eval.

[gregfurman]

FYI, we ended up using the WASM binary released by vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes.

Specifically, we're using the python-3.12.0.wasm artifact at https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes/releases/latest/download/python-3.12.0.wasm

Hope this helps!