ANNOUNCE: Mod_python 3.2.5 Beta

[grahamd at dscpl.com.au]

Damjan wrote:
> > The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache HTTP Server Project are
> > pleased to announce the 3.2.5 Beta release mod_python.
> http://www.modpython.org/live/mod_python-3.2.5b/doc-html/hand-pub-alg-auth.html
>
> says "Since functions cannot be assigned attributes,..."
>
> But that's not true (at least in 2.3 and 2.4):
>
> >>> def f():
> ...   return 'a'
> ...
> >>> f.__auth__ = {1:'one'}

The documentation was originally written when mod_python supported 2.1
and 2.2. :-)

Anyway, whether it can now be done is irrelevant as the next part of
the documentation states:

  Note that this technique will also work if __auth__ or __access__ is
a constant, but will not work is they are a dictionary or a list.

Thus I suspect (but can't confirm right now), that your example will
not work anyway as __auth__ defined within the scope of the function as
a dictionary will not be seen as a constant as required.

Overall, I would not recommend relying on nesting __auth__ or
__access__ within the scope of a published function like this as the
code which supports this feature is somewhat fragile.

  http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-43

It is possible that now that mod_python requires at least mod_python
2.3 that new features in the language may be able to be utilised to
improve this feature of mod_python.

BTW, you are better off bringing up issue like this about mod_python on
the mod_python mailing list instead of the general Python group.

Graham