[Zope] security assertions and Python scripts

[Dieter Maurer]

Mitchell L Model writes:
 > At the beginning of one of my Python scripts I put:
 > 
 > 	import pdb
 > 	pdb.set_trace()
 > 
 > which I had gotten used to doing in my product's Python code.  It 
 > doesn't complain about the import (which, in retrospect, surprises 
 > me, since I thought there were only a small number of library modules 
 > that could be imported).
I am surprised, too.
 > However, when it gets to the 
 > pdb.set_trace(), it prompts for a login name and password (even 
 > though I'm already logged in) and doesn't accept mine.
That's to be expected, because "set_trace" has probably no
security declarations.

There is an excellent post in the mailing list archives
explaining how you can make a function in a module available
for PythonScripts. Search for "ModuleSecurityInfo".


Dieter