Re: [Zope] Class definition problem in a Python Script

7 Dec 2001

      complaw@hal-pc.org writes:
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Unfortunately, my mechanism for doing so is giving
me a "SyntaxError, Names starting with "_" are not allowed (__doc__)."
Here is the code...
def get_object_by_element_number(objList, given_element_number):
class MyErrorClass:
    "Dummy class so something is returned (with an error indicator)"
    element_number = -1
found = 0
  for obj in objList:
    if given_element_number = obj.element_number:
      found = 1
      return obj
if found == 0:
    error_obj = MyErrorClass
    return error_obj
I can do it without problem (replaced "error_obj = MyErrorClass"
with "error_obj= MyErrorClass()").

Are you sure, the SyntaxError is inside this script?

I expect problems when I would try to access the object in TTW code
(no "SyntaxError" but an "Unauthorized" exception).

I would probably go for the following solution:

  Provide security declarations that make "ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.Record"
  importable. Derive your class from "Record".

Dieter

Re: [Zope] Class definition problem in a Python Script

Dieter Maurer