[Zope] Modifying __bases__

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Fri May 20 15:00:53 EDT 2005


You might also be able to do the __bases__ hack with Zope 2.8 (as long
as Python 2.3+ allows you to assign to it), as it reimplements
ExtensionClass using metaclasses instead of custom C hackery.

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:46 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Dan Pozmanter wrote:
> > What I aim to do is have the User Object inherit from a custom class
> > (AlienUser).
> 
> You can do that in two ways off the top of my head:
> 
> 1) the good way: write a custom UserFolder.
> You could probably get away with just inheriting from UserFolder and 
> overriding _doAddUser(). 
> 
> 2) the hacky way: monkeypatch User.py to replace SimpleUser
> with your class.
> 
> either way the stuff you are interested in is in AccessControl/User.py.
> 
> 



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