Changeset 1593

Timestamp:

07/06/04 20:09:42 (20 years ago)

Author:

jalet

Message:

Reduced the set of invalid characters in names

Location:

pykota/trunk

Files:

• NEWS (modified) (1 diff)
• pykota/tool.py (modified) (2 diffs)

pykota/trunk/NEWS

@@ -24 +24 @@
     - 1.19alpha30 :
     
+        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
+          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
+        
         - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio 
           Gonz�z Gonz�z

pykota/trunk/pykota/tool.py

@@ -22 +22 @@
 #
 # $Log$
+# Revision 1.111  2004/07/06 18:09:42  jalet
+# Reduced the set of invalid characters in names
+#
 # Revision 1.110  2004/07/01 19:56:42  jalet
 # Better dispatching of error messages
@@ -585 +588 @@
     def isValidName(self, name) :
         """Checks if a user or printer name is valid."""
-        # unfortunately Python 2.1 string modules doesn't define ascii_letters...
-        asciiletters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
-        digits = '0123456789'
-        validchars = asciiletters + digits + "-_."
-        for c in name :
-            if c not in validchars :
+        invalidchars = "/@"
+        for c in invalidchars :
+            if c in name :
                 return 0
         return 1