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I don't care how "broken" my multi-line if statement is, I would never add Zope as a requirement.

Also, singleton (yuck) accessed via a helper function: yuck. Just import it.

This starts to make sense where OP professes fondness of XML: we have a Java developer!

The application it's part of (GroupServer) is based on Zope, so it's there already and everybody working on it will be familiar with it.

That said, I don't understand yet why its code should be split into 9 pages of separate repositories (see https://github.com/groupserver/)...

Yeah i felt the same way. I can't really tell how gnarly the if statement is, but interfaces, classes, zope, xml is way worse. Every one knows how if statements work, not so much with zope xml.

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