[Zope-dev] SVN: Zope/trunk/ OFS.ObjectManager now fully implements the zope.container.IContainer interface

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Mon Feb 23 12:03:59 EST 2009


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Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
>> Using __setitem__ and __delitem__ has security implicatinos for
>> untrusted code:   how are you addressing them?
> 
> Maybe I'm missing some knowledge about the security machinery then. I
> thought the methods wouldn't be available to untrusted code at all, as
> they start with an underscore. You simply won't be able to write
> om['id'] in untrusted code and still need to use the existing API.

You don't access them by name when doing 'del om["id"]' or 'om["id"] =
None', so the underscore doesn't matter.  I just tried from a
PythonScript and got a TypeError out of the RestrictedPython.Guards
module, so I guess that the obvious cases are covered.


Tres.
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