[Zope-DB] Access and Zope in Linux 7.2

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:59:20 +0100


Robert Kellock wrote:
> That is true. I've been looking around for alternatives, but cannot find any. Does anyone know of a way of parsing a string into a nested list in a single pass without using eval()?

Why not use pickle or marshal for that ?

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>>Robert Kellock wrote:
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>>>Or try isectZope (http://www.zope.org/Members/creditscore/isectZope).
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>>It's cross-platform and very lightweight,  whereas the server component of
>>SQLRelay only works on the Unix variants. isectZope contains a generic
>>Zope DA and Visual Basic bindings and comes with Windows binaries. To make
>>it work with MS-Access all you will need to do is create a small VB EXE
>>that connects to Access using DAO or ADO and ships the result set back to
>>Zope as a Python eval() capable string.
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>>You should really try to find a different way of passing the data
>>back to Zope: eval() is a huge security risk which could be exploited
>>easily.
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