Greg Ewing wrote:
E.g. I might have a service configuration registry object. The object behaves roughly like a dictionary. A certain user may be given read-only access to the registry.
Maybe every Python object should have a flag which can be set to prevent introspection -- like the current restricted execution mechanism, but on a per-object basis. Then any object could be used as a capability.
Yes, but not a very useful one. For example, given a file, you often want to create a "file read" capability which is an object that allows reading the file but not writing the file. Just preventing introspection isn't enough. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org