I'm wondering if it is possible to slightly relax the restrictions imposed by the RestrictedPython package? I keep running into its walls for simple little things that could have made implementing my channel easier, like having classes with __getattr__ methods or which manipulate their own __dict__ or even just importing 3rd-party modules which happen to use __file__ or which have functions or methods that start with a "_". It's been frustrating.
I dug into the framework code some more and I found that the code restrictions can be relaxed a little bit by setting this in the Info.plist:
PlexPluginCodePolicy
Elevated
It still has more restrictions than what I think is neccessary, but it at least allows things like __getattr__ methods and a few other things. It still doesn't allow __dict__ but I can work around that.
I also found code dealing with a whitelist of modules set with PlexPluginModuleWhitelist in Info.plist, but either it does not do what I expected it to from reading the code, or it is ignored for modules located in the plugin bundle.
