[Zope] Accessing properties of broken instances

[Stephen Pitts]

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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:31:32PM -0600, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> How can I access the properties of a broken Z-Class instance through
> DTML? I've rewritten a Z-Class inside one of my Products in Python and
> I'm trying to migrate all of the instances. I know the data is there,
> because I can export the instance to an HTML file and the properties
> show up. :-)
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> Stephen Pitts
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The attached patch fixes it so that you can access properties of Broken
instances. Why is this not default behavior?
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Stephen Pitts
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--- lib/python/OFS/Uninstalled.py.old	Mon Dec 20 15:34:20 1999
+++ lib/python/OFS/Uninstalled.py	Tue Dec 21 11:49:47 1999
@@ -105,9 +105,7 @@
             """)
 
     def __getattr__(self, name):
-        if name[:3]=='_p_':
-            return BrokenClass.inheritedAttribute('__getattr__')(self, name)
-        raise AttributeError, name
+        return BrokenClass.inheritedAttribute('__getattr__')(self, name)
 
     manage=manage_main=Globals.HTMLFile('brokenEdit',globals())
     manage_workspace=manage

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