def is_safe_attribute(self, obj, attr, value):
        """The sandboxed environment will call this method to check if the
        attribute of an object is safe to access.  Per default all attributes
        starting with an underscore are considered private as well as the
        special attributes of internal python objects as returned by the
        :func:`is_internal_attribute` function.
        """
        return not (attr.startswith('_') or is_internal_attribute(obj, attr))