Spoofing request when running Zope from the command line

spoof.py

from plone import api
from zope.component.hooks import setSite

import transaction


def spoof_request(app):
    from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import newSecurityManager
    from AccessControl.SecurityManager import setSecurityPolicy
    from Testing.makerequest import makerequest
    from Products.CMFCore.tests.base.security import OmnipotentUser
    from Products.CMFCore.tests.base.security import PermissiveSecurityPolicy
    _policy = PermissiveSecurityPolicy()
    _oldpolicy = setSecurityPolicy(_policy)
    newSecurityManager(None, OmnipotentUser().__of__(app.acl_users))
    return makerequest(app)

app = spoof_request(app)
site = app['Plone']
setSite(site)