Bastion Documentation Error?

[Chris Liechti]

jimd at vega.starshine.org (Jim Dennis) wrote in 
news:a8dsj3$1n4j$1 at news.idiom.com:
>  I'm a bit confused by the Bastion.Bastion() function.
>  From the documentation I read:
> 
>  """
>  Protect the object object, returning a bastion for the object. Any
>  attempt to access one of the object's attributes will have to be
>  approved by the filter function; if the access is denied an 
>  AttributeError exception will be raised. 
>  """

it says also:
"""
 It must always be used with the rexec module, in order to allow 
restricted-mode programs access to certain safe attributes of an object, 
while denying access to other, unsafe attributes. 
"""

so you must use it within rexec to make it work...

chris

>  ... but playing with it I find that it raises an AttributeError on 
>  any attempt to access any class or instance variables.  

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>