[Zope] Modifying __bases__

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Wed May 25 09:20:47 EDT 2005


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.

2 IS evil, and WILL bite you later ;-)

1 is easy: use SimpleUserFolder...

cheers,

Chris

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