[Zope3-Users] Adapting a builtin?

[Jim Fulton]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> It is valid both to:
>>
>> - Declare an interface for a built-in type and
>>   register adapters for that interface, and to
>>
>> - Register adapters for builtin types directly.
>>
>> I can't promise that this works now, but it ought to work.
>> I'm 90% sure that it does in fact work, at least in Zope 3.
> 
> 
> If exceptions are counted as built-ins,

Nope. Builtins are things like str and list.  The interface
package actually provides some special support for types like these
that can't have interface-declaration data added to them.

Jim


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