[Zope] Unpack, "You are not allowed to use unpack..."

[Dennis Allison]

You can use an External Method or extend the "commonly agreed upon as
safe" restricted Python used by Scripts Python.   Since you are wanting 
to read a file, you may be stuck with an External Method.   Or you could 
build a Product...  

On 16 Sep 2003, Jerry Westrick wrote:

> Hello Zopistas....
> 
> 
> I'm trying to read a binary file from within zope...
> 
> It's format is rather simple, but it does a length stored as an Unsigned
> long.
> 
> In a test program, I used to struct.unpack(...) to read in the unsigned
> long...
> 
> Unfortunatetly, Zope don't want me to do this 8-(
> 
> Is there a work around?
> Is there a work around, or must I create an unpack(..) external script
> just to get this value?
> 
> Jerry Westrick...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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