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edx-platform/common/djangoapps/util/sandboxing.py

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import re
from django.conf import settings
def can_execute_unsafe_code(course_id):
"""
Determine if this course is allowed to run unsafe code.
For use from the ModuleStore. Checks the `course_id` against a list of whitelisted
regexes.
Returns a boolean, true if the course can run outside the sandbox.
"""
# To decide if we can run unsafe code, we check the course id against
# a list of regexes configured on the server.
# If this is not defined in the environment variables then default to the most restrictive, which
# is 'no unsafe courses'
# TODO: This should be a database configuration, where we can mark individual courses as being
# safe/unsafe. Someone in the future should switch us over to that rather than using regexes
# in a settings file
# To others using this: the code as-is is brittle and likely to be changed in the future,
# as per the TODO, so please consider carefully before adding more values to COURSES_WITH_UNSAFE_CODE
for regex in getattr(settings, 'COURSES_WITH_UNSAFE_CODE', []):
if re.match(regex, course_id.to_deprecated_string()):
return True
return False