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

Philipp von Weitershausen philipp at weitershausen.de
Thu Jun 1 12:19:30 EDT 2006


Florent Guillaume wrote:
> 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.

Cool, thanks.

>> 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.

So true.

Philipp


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