Hi All, Sorry Andreas - I hit "reply" instead of "reply-all", and sent my response only to you. Thanks for your reply. On 1/8/08, Andreas Jung <lists@zopyx.com> wrote:
FAQ!
Yes, there have been a good few questions about this - I spent a lot of time googling yesterday, and found a couple of threads where the questioner seems to have given up at this point. The problem seems to be that it works "some of the time" - I have another case where it works (pywintypes, FWIW).
allow_module() does not work with all and everything. Use an external method or a browser view instead or move your code into your zope product code (if you have one).
In this case, how could I know that allow_module() will not work with md5? IOW, how could I tell the difference between a module not being a candidate for allow_module() and an error in my own code? I understand that an external method or a product are my other choices, but I'm really uncomfortable about not understanding how I can tell when I can and when I cannot use allow_module() - at the moment, this feels horribly like "trial and error" coding! Enough people have struggled with this that I'd like to understand it well enough to add something to the wiki for the next person who has the problem... -- Cheers, Philip