On 1/11/07, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 1/10/07, Joseph Kocherhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I propose to register and lookup backends by name to fix this
> > problem. Here's a configuration sample:
> >
> > # a tuple of (name, path) tuples
> > AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
> > ('default', 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'),
> > ('ldap', 'mypkg.backends.LDAPBackend'),
> > )
>
> Other than the fact that it's currently a tuple, is there any reason
> not to change this to a dictionary? That'd feel cleaner and make it
> much easier to do lookups against it (no more iterating through tuples
> of tuples):
>
> # a dictionary of name/path pairs
> AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = {
> 'default': 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
> 'ldap': 'mypkg.backends.LDAPBackend',
> }
I'd love to use a dictionary, but the order of backends matters. I
wish python had a decent syntax for what basically amounts to an
ordered dict.
Joseph
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