Hi, There seems to be a bug in either AccessControl.SimpleObjectPolicies.allow_type or Products.PythonScripts.module_access_examples.py, as module_access_examples's examples such as allow_type(type(re.compile(''))) dont work. Knowing neither Python nor Zope, I patched allow_type like this: --- zope/lib/python/AccessControl/SimpleObjectPolicies.py~ Tue Mar 12 17:49:14 2002 +++ zope/lib/python/AccessControl/SimpleObjectPolicies.py Mon Mar 4 10:40:42 2002 @@ -57,5 +57,5 @@ raise ValueError, "%s handles its own security" % `Type` if not (isinstance(allowed, IntType) or isinstance(allowed, DictType)): raise ValueError, "The 'allowed' argument must be an int or dict." - ContainerAssertions.update(Type, allowed) + ContainerAssertions.update({Type: allowed}) The above statement then works, but I don't know if this is an appropriate fix.. Regards, yves