zope.security.permission

>>> from zope.security.permission import checkPermission
>>> from zope.component import provideUtility
>>> from zope.security.interfaces import IPermission
>>> from zope.security.permission import Permission
>>> x = Permission('x')
>>> provideUtility(x, IPermission, 'x')

>>> checkPermission(None, 'x')
>>> checkPermission(None, 'y')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: ('Undefined permission ID', 'y')

The zope.security.checker.CheckerPublic permission always exists:

>>> from zope.security.checker import CheckerPublic
>>> checkPermission(None, CheckerPublic)

>>> from zope.security.permission import allPermissions
>>> from zope.component import provideUtility
>>> y = Permission('y')
>>> provideUtility(y, IPermission, 'y')

>>> ids = sorted(allPermissions(None))
>>> for perm in sorted(allPermissions(None)):
...     print(perm)
x
y

To illustrate, we need to register the permissions vocabulary:

>>> from zope.security.permission import PermissionsVocabulary
>>> from zope.schema.vocabulary import _clear
>>> _clear()

>>> from zope.schema.vocabulary import getVocabularyRegistry
>>> registry = getVocabularyRegistry()
>>> registry.register('Permissions', PermissionsVocabulary)

We can now lookup the permissions we created earlier using the vocabulary:

>>> vocab = registry.get(None, 'Permissions')
>>> vocab.getTermByToken('x').value is x
True
>>> vocab.getTermByToken('y').value is y
True

To illustrate, we need to register the permission IDs vocabulary:

>>> from zope.security.permission import PermissionIdsVocabulary
>>> registry.register('Permission Ids', PermissionIdsVocabulary)

We also need to register the special 'zope.Public' permission:

>>> provideUtility(Permission('zope.Public'), IPermission, 'zope.Public')

We can now lookup these permissions using the vocabulary:

>>> vocab = registry.get(None, 'Permission Ids')

The non-public permissions ‘x’ and ‘y’ are string values:

>>> print(vocab.getTermByToken('x').value)
x
>>> print(vocab.getTermByToken('y').value)
y

However, the public permission value is CheckerPublic:

>>> vocab.getTermByToken('zope.Public').value is CheckerPublic
True

and its title is shortened:

>>> print(vocab.getTermByToken('zope.Public').title)
Public

The terms are sorted by title except for the public permission, which is listed first:

>>> for term in vocab:
...    print(term.title)
Public
x
y