Hi, a developer who's working with me has been bitten by the following fact today, one year after me. There are two methods on objects BasicUser. One is called "has_role" and has the following docstring: """Check to see if a user has a given role or roles.""" The other one is called hasRole, is an alias on another method that's called "allowed" and has the following docstring: """Check whether the user has access to object, assuming that object.__roles__ is the given roles.""" (The Zope Book doesn't say anything on "has_role" (why?) but says about "hasRole": hasRole(object, roles) -- Return a value that is true if the user has the given roles on the given object and return false otherwise.) I understand that those two methods have differents signatures and different uses, but I think that the names are too similar to not induce confusion. S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). http://nuxeo.com/ & http://portalux.com/ & http://aful.org/ "Amazon: we patent the dot in .com"