Closing PEP 330 -- Bytecode Verification. If someone wants to write and

test some code, no PEP is required.

pep-0000.txt

@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ Index by Category
  S   321  Date/Time Parsing and Formatting             Kuchling
  S   323  Copyable Iterators                           Martelli
  S   325  Resource-Release Support for Generators      Pedroni
- S   330  Python Bytecode Verification                 Pelletier
  S   331  Locale-Independent Float/String conversions  Reis
  S   332  Byte vectors and String/Unicode Unification  Montanaro
  S   334  Simple Coroutines via SuspendIteration       Evans
@@ -211,6 +210,7 @@ Index by Category
  SR  317  Eliminate Implicit Exception Instantiation   Taschuk
  SR  326  A Case for Top and Bottom Values             Carlson, Reedy
  SR  329  Treating Builtins as Constants in the Standard Library  Hettinger
+ SR  330  Python Bytecode Verification                 Pelletier
  SR  336  Make None Callable                           McClelland
  SR  340  Anonymous Block Statements                   GvR
  SR  346  User Defined ("with") Statements             Coghlan
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ Numerical Index
  SF  327  Decimal Data Type                            Batista
  SA  328  Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative    Aahz
  SR  329  Treating Builtins as Constants in the Standard Library  Hettinger
- S   330  Python Bytecode Verification                 Pelletier
+ SR  330  Python Bytecode Verification                 Pelletier
  S   331  Locale-Independent Float/String conversions  Reis
  S   332  Byte vectors and String/Unicode Unification  Montanaro
  I   333  Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0     Eby

pep-0330.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Title: Python Bytecode Verification
 Version: $Revision$
 Last-Modified: $Date$
 Author: Michel Pelletier <michel@users.sourceforge.net>
-Status: Draft 
+Status: Rejected 
 Type: Standards Track
 Content-Type: text/plain
 Created: 17-Jun-2004
@@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ Abstract
     of Python Virtual Machine (PVM) bytecode and provides an
     implementation in Python of this verification process.
 
+Pronouncement
+
+    Guido believes that a verification tool has some value.  If
+    someone wants to add it to Tools/scripts, no PEP is required.
+
+    Such a tool may have value for validating the output from
+    "bytecodehacks" or from direct edits of PYC files.  As security
+    measure, its value is somewhat limited because perfectly valid
+    bytecode can still do horrible things.  That situation could
+    change if the concept of restricted execution were to be
+    successfully resurrected.
 
 Motivation