privileges 0.1

privileges makes segmenting authenticated users easy and extensible.

Unlike Django permissions, privileges is not tied to operations on individual models. It operates at a higher level of abstraction and is instead concerned more with providing the site developer complete freedom in determining who can do what. There certainly is some overlap with the built in permissions system, and while you could use privileges to replace it, at least large parts of it, that is not the aim of this app.

Instead, think of privileges allowing the site developer to control access to certain features. Operating at the template and view layers the site developer can paint as broad or as fine of strokes to suit their needs.

It is extensible in the sense that the site developer can define and register their own privilege validation handlers. In fact they must define at least one handler. There is a template tag for checking privileges in templates and a decorator for checking privileges when a view is called.

There is a model that stores the named privileges which are nothing more than named slugs. The records carry no special meeting to privileges in isolation but depend on the site developer to impart meaning through reference in his site.