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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:16:44+00:00

I like to use IPython’s zope profile to inspect my Plone instance, but a

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I like to use IPython’s zope profile to inspect my Plone instance, but a few annoying permissions differences come up compared to inserting a breakpoint and hitting it with the admin user.

For example, I would like to iterate over the content objects in an unpublished testing folder. This query will return no results in the shell, but works from a breakpoint.

$ bin/instance shell $ ipython --profile=zope  from Products.CMFPlone.utils import getToolByName catalog = getToolByName(context, 'portal_catalog') catalog({'path':'Plone/testing'})

Can I authenticate as admin or otherwise rejigger the permissions to fully manipulate my site from ipython?

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  1. Just use catalog.search({‘path’:’Plone/testing’}). It performs the same query as catalog() but does not filter the results based on the current user’s permissions.

    IPython’s zope profile does provide a method utils.su(‘username’) to change the current user, but it does not recognize the admin user (defined in /acl_users instead of /Plone/acl_users) and after calling it subsequent calls to catalog() fail with AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘checkPermission’.

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