[Zope-dev] Re: SVN: Zope/trunk/lib/python/AccessControl/ Make python security policy work with a boolean __aatus__

[Florent Guillaume]

On 1 Jun 2006, at 17:53, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Florent Guillaume wrote:
>> Log message for revision 68446:
>>   Make python security policy work with a boolean __aatus__
>
> Wow, I wasn't aware that only ints were possible. Shouldn't this be
> backported to Zope 2.9 as well? I consider it a bug when an 1 won't be
> exchangeable for True in something that's apparently either true of  
> false.

Right, I backported it.

> By the way, a test for isinstance(__aatus__, int) would also be  
> true for
> booleans because bool inherits from int.

I didn't want to touch the p.__class__ part because of security  
proxies came to my mind... In this case it probably doesn't matter  
but I didn't want to risk it.

Florent

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