[Zope] DTML, Zope and Regex

[Ben Avery]

well, external methods are python scripts with no safety measures at 
all, so are potentially much more unsafe than any use of regexps in a 
python script. So I'd say it's better to allow the re module in your 
python scripts (see my previous post) than resort to external methods.

but I also haven't come across a reason to consider regexps unsafe. I'm 
sure it's been discussed here before - could someone point us to a post 
on this subject, pls ?


Jorge O. Martinez wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Thanks for clarifying. I know it's not gone, and I've seen several 
> threads debating that. Just wonder if someone could expand how 
> enabling regexes can be unsafe for python scripts on Zope as Ben was 
> suggesting. I feel regexes ARE an incredibly useful tool, and wish 
> they were available for DTML and python scripts by default.
>
> I feel doing it via an external method complicates things 
> unnecessarily IMHO (I am a Zope newbie, so don't know the reasoning 
> behind this, but if PHP, for example, allows its use and makes 
> developers life easier, I don't see why Zope restricts it).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jorge M.
>
>
> Chris McDonough wrote:
>
>> Just to clarify: DTML is not "gone".  This scares people when they
>> hear it.  DTML will be around probably forever.  It's just not the
>> right tool for this particular job.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bo M. Maryniuck" <b.maryniuk@forbis.lt>
>> To: "Jorge O. Martinez" <jmartinez@eMediaMillWorks.com>;
>> <zope@zope.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Zope] DTML, Zope and Regex
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday 09 July 2002 17:15, Jorge O. Martinez wrote:
>>
>>> Yes I know that is not 'real' code that does not exist, I was just
>>
>>
>> saying
>>
>>> if something like it could be done with DTML. Guess not, I had
>>
>>
>> seen the
>>
>>> external method solution from Runyaga, but was hoping something
>>
>>
>> could be
>>
>>> done with DTML only.
>>
>>
>>
>> You want do this via External Method, not via DTML. DTML is gone.
>>
>> -- 
>> Sincerely yours, Bogdan M. Maryniuck
>>
>> Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartitioning Disk for
>> Linux...
>> (By cbbrown@io.org, Christopher Browne)
>>
>>
>>
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