[Zope-dev] Catalog result brains not extendable

[Chris McDonough]

There's no ban for attributes other than __setattr__ and __setitem__. 
The Zope security machinery is built largely around these two methods
plus __getattr__ and __getitem__.

I would likely use an external method or perhaps Evan's XXXPythonScripts
that don't have restrictions against doing __setattr__.

- C


"Jay, Dylan" wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get some results from a catalog and add meta_data to it.
> It seems the only way I can do this using python scripts is by turning the
> each result object into a dictionary and then adding to that. This is due to
> the fact that you can't do a setattr on anything using a python script. Why
> not? Obviously for security reasons but surely there must be a less
> restrictive alternative than a blanket ban on using attributes on classes?
> 
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