March 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

mailing list archive download in bulk?
by Robert Wentworth 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

Is there any way of downloading large blocks of the Zope mailing list archive in bulk, rather than wading through one message at a time over the web (which is rather painful, especially since I haven't discovered how to get a listing of all the discussion threads so I can be more systematic)?

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Re: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: Advanced DTML HowTo
by Service Informatique CHSR 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

>Are you confused by the subtleties of DTML? Want the skinny on advanced >DTML tricks and gotchas? Check out my advanced DTML HowTo: > >http://www.zope.org/Documentation/HowTo/DTML > Thanks You say "one shouldn't have to use  instead of ." However, i find it useful to write:    instead of:    Hope that helps... Regards, Jephte CLAIN Service Informatique CHSR

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Help! How do I make the JobBoard example work?
by Justin Miller 15 Mar '99

15 Mar '99

Hi All, As an exercise, I'm trying to get the JobBoard example code given in http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Reference/ObjectPublishingIntro to work in Zope (as opposed to Bobo/ZPublisher), and am having some difficulty. Copying the PeeWee's playhouse example in http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Reference/ExternalMethods, I placed all the JobBoard files in zope/lib/python/shared/JobBoard, made an empty __init__.py file, fixed up the dtml_loc variable, and put a JobBoard_utils.py file into zope/extensions, which reads as follows: "utility to add JobBoard objects to folders" def addJobBoard(self,id): "Add a playhouse to the current folder" if not hasattr(self,id): setattr(self,id,JobBoard("Python Jobs")) return "JobBoard added with id %s" % id else: return "id %s already in use" % id Using Zope's management GUI, I successfully added the addJobBoard function as an external method, and have successfully called it to create a JobBoard object called testJobBoard. However, when I try to view the testJobBoard object, I get an error message that reads "Sorry, the requested document does not exist." The addJobBoard function was added as an external method to the root folder, so my understanding is that the testJobBoard object should also be accessible from within the root folder (that is that its URL is "localhost:9673/testJobBoard"). What am I doing wrong here? Also, what is the proper way to debug this sort of problem? The output of the zope process merely mentions a GET request for the given URL, and the 404 response code -- no further detail is given. Thanks in advance for the help! -Justin http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Reference/ProductTutorial.tar.gz

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Re: [Zope] Structured text and lists
by Tres Seaver 14 Mar '99

14 Mar '99

Milos Prudek wrote: > Can I make ordered/unordered lists using structured text, without > doublespacing lines? When I write single spaced lines: > - one > - two > - three > it's not rendered as list. And when I write doublespaced lines, it's > rendered as doublespaced list... In lib/python/StructuredText/StructuredText.py, modify the ul() and ol() methods as follows: Change: if p: p="<p>%s</p>" % strip(ctag(p)) to if p: p="%s" % strip(ctag(p)) I posted a more robust diff to the zope-dev list last night, which allows replacement of the list-element format string from an ExternalMethod. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver(a)palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com

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Re: [Zope] fsimport HowTo
by Tony McDonald 14 Mar '99

14 Mar '99

> I put fsimport.py into /usr/local/zope/Extensions/ (I had to create > Extensions dir), and added fsimport external method to a directory > 'ppm', then I pointed my browser to > http://www.sol.cz/Zope/ppm/fsimport?fsdir=/web/srvs-sol/www.sol.cz/ppm/index .htm, > which probably is not the way to do it, is it? > > -- > Milos Prudek The docs seem to imply that you provide fsdir with a *directory* ie fsdir=/web/srvs-sol/www.so.cz/ppm http://www.zop.org/Documentation/HowTo/FSimport for more details. tone

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MySQL & integer IDs
by Tom Jenkins 14 Mar '99

14 Mar '99

Hello all, First let me start by saying I've finally cleared time to play with zope. Its coming along nicely but I've hit a snag. The following snippet in a form: <TR><TD ALIGN="RIGHT">Staff</TD><TD><SELECT NAME="bugs_tbl.staff">  <OPTION VALUE="">  </SELECT></TD></TR> using MySQL produces the following HTML: <TR><TD ALIGN="RIGHT">Staff</TD><TD><SELECT NAME="bugs_tbl.staff"> <OPTION VALUE="2L">Alan Johnston <OPTION VALUE="1L">Tom Jenkins </SELECT></TD></TR> Now unfortunately I believe the L is causing the insert to fail with an invalid integer. I specified user_id as integer unsigned zerofill auto_increment. Does anyone know why the 'L' is being return? TIA -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tom Jenkins DevIS (http://www.devis.com) Linux & Samba 2.0 : The best Windows file server http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,2196106,00.html "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:21

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Re: [Zope] 'Enter query parameters'
by lstep＠mail.dotcom.fr 14 Mar '99

14 Mar '99

Hannu Krosing <hannu(a)trust.ee> writes: > > Auteur: <input width="30" name="auteur" value=""><br> > > why no type=text ? Oops forgot it. Well it worked without it :-) > This is definitely wrong ;( > > something like > INSERT INTO messages (auteur,title,bookdate,any_good) > VALUES > ('testing again', > 'blahblahblah', 'now', 'f') Ow you're right. But this hasn't changed anything, it still ask me for the parameters after clicking on submit :-( In the HTML form, I replaced the action with '<form action="add_message/manage_test" method="get">' where add_message is the Z SQL method. And it adds correctly the record to my Database, but displays 'This was not a query'. And, well, I don't think taht's the correct method to add records, by using the test method :-)) Is there anywhere an example of product adding some records to a database ? > might have worked. You may also mean current_date or current_time > instead of now or now() What's the difference between now and current_date / current_time I tried all of them, and they give exactly the same result (the good date :-) Thanks, Luc -- Luc Stepniewski <lstep(a)mail.dotcom.fr> http://www.planete.net/~rstep/pubkey.txt KeyID: 1024D/76A31F52 GnuPG: 819D 1F8E 7BE2 B80C AA2C 0473 CCED 48B6 76A3 1F52

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fsimport HowTo
by Milos Prudek 14 Mar '99

14 Mar '99

Trying to use fsimport.py module, I get the following error: Sorry, an error occurred. Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 877, in publish_module File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 590, in publish (Info: /ppm/fsimport) File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/Products/ExternalMethod/ExternalMethod.py, line 254, in __call__ (Object: CopySource) (Info: ((<Folder instance at 0x8a74010>, '/web/srvs-sol/www.sol.cz/ppm/index.htm', form: fsdir: '/web/srvs-sol/www.sol.cz/ppm/index.htm' [environ info omitted for brevity] ), {}, (None,))) TypeError: read-only buffer, class I put fsimport.py into /usr/local/zope/Extensions/ (I had to create Extensions dir), and added fsimport external method to a directory 'ppm', then I pointed my browser to http://www.sol.cz/Zope/ppm/fsimport?fsdir=/web/srvs-sol/www.sol.cz/ppm/inde…, which probably is not the way to do it, is it? -- Milos Prudek

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Re: [Zope] please interpret
by Tres Seaver 14 Mar '99

14 Mar '99

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:03:08 -0500 Jeffrey P Shell wrote: > >From: julian(a)zereau.net > > > > "TypeError: read-only buffer, class" > > > > I keep getting this error, please can someone explain what typically > > causes it? > > This is a buglet in ExternalMethod where an exception has been raised and > caught by ExternalMethod, and EM is looking at the values of the traceback > for some special conditions. It's trying to do a string.lower() call on > one of the values that in Python1.4 was always a string, but in Python1.5.x > is an instance (in Python 1.5, standard exceptions became classes). This > has been fixed and will be in the next release. Could you post the patch, please? This error message hits me about five ways from Sunday. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver(a)palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com

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Bug in sqlvar.py?
by Jeff K. Hoffman 14 Mar '99

14 Mar '99

Hello, everyone. I'm bustin' ass on my project for the outdoors group and ran into a problem with the #sqlvar command. At the top of the file, in the docstring, it says: For example, given the tag::  And, when I submit the query while leaving address2 blank I get: Invalid empty string value for address2 When reading the code, beginning on line 200 there is the else case which handles values of types other than int or float: else: v=str(v) if not v and t=='nb': raise ValueError, ( 'Invalid empty string value for <em>%s</em>' % name) v=md.getitem('sql_quote__',0)(v) #if find(v,"\'") >= 0: v=join(split(v,"\'"),"''") #v="'%s'" % v There is absolutely no check for the optional flag in this case as there are in the cases for int and float. Is this check supposed to be handled elsewhere in the code, and never make it here, or is this an oversight? I can patch it to fix the problem quite easily, but if this is not the preferred way of doing things I'd like to know (to avoid patching it every time a new Zope comes out.) I have two address lines, address1 and address2. I just want it to set address2 to null if the user does not fill it out. Is that too much to ask? :^) As I said, if I'm blatantly overlooking something, please let me know. If not, I'll be happy to submit a patch and/or report this in the collector. Thanks. Hope you all are having a good weekend! jkh

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