[Zope-Coders] SimpleItem.getId busted

[Casey Duncan]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:41:22 +0100
Florent Guillaume <fg at nuxeo.com> wrote:
> >
> > def getId(self):
> >     try:
> >         name = aq_base(self).id
> >     except AttributeError:
> >         try:
> >             return self.__name__
> >         except AttributeError:
> >             raise AttributeError, 'This object has no name'
> >     else:
> >         try:
> >             return name()
> >         except TypeError:
> >             return name
> 
> Beware, if id is callable you'll end up calling aq_base(self).id() and
> not self.id() which can make a big difference...

Why would you want to call an acquired id method? Are you creating python scripts named id? ;^)

-Casey