[Zope-DB] Z Psycopg and date fields

[Charlie Clark]

On 2003-04-24 at 02:52:01 [+0200], Kevin Chambers wrote:
> Hi there--
> 
> Zope 2.6 on Debian Testing (Sarge)
> 
> I'm struggling with formatting date fields coming from my PostgreSQL DB.
> 
> By default the database connection uses mxDateTime, which not a standard 
> permitted zope library.  To get mxDateTime I tried entering the following 
> __init__.py in a folder in the products directory, but it doesn't stop me 
> from getting "You are not allowed to access date in this context" message:
> 
> ____________________________________________________ 
> Products.PythonScripts.Utility import allow_module allow_module("time")
> ____________________________________________________
> 
> 
> I also tried allow_module("mxDateTime") and allow_module("mxdatetime")
> 
> 
> Psycopg has the option to use the Zope DateTime module, which I'd be fine 
> with, except that I get a:
> 
> Error Type: AttributeError
> Error Value: _year
> 
> when there are nulls.
> 
> Can anyone help?

Yes, upgrade to the newest mxDateTime if MAL has released it. It fixes the 
security problem which you noted.

Charlie