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Script returning a zpt
by Simon Faulkner 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

If I call my ZPT with a URL ie show_orders?country=France it works a treat and the ZSql uses the country variable no probs How do I return this URL from a script? return context.show_orders(country='France') doesn't work! Am I miles off? Simon

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Send an email with attachment (from a python script)
by Jean Baltus 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Hi all, How can I send an email with an attachment from a python script? Right now, we are using a script that looks as follows: mailhost=context.MailHost mailApproval = context.mail_template(context, email=email) mailhost.send(mailApproval) where "mail_template" is a page template that looks as follows: To: <span tal:replace="options/email" /> From: "<span tal:replace="here/email_from_address" />" Subject: A Subject Content-Type: text/plain; charset=<span tal:replace="here/portal_properties/site_properties/default_charset" /> BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY BODY Anybody has an idea to add an attachment to this? Regards, -- Jean Baltus

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Get the text, not the result, from external_validator field
by Ralph vd Houdt 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Hi All, For development purposes I am writing myself an overview of all my Fomulator Forms. In this overview I'm trying to print the text, not the result, of the external_validator field of a specific fomulator field. Does anyone know how to get the text of that field? I started like this and tried everything: "container['the_form'].get_field('the_field') --- how to get the external validator text ---" Greetings Ralph vd Houdt

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Photo & Photofolder: broken pipe (err32)
by Tim Willems 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Hi, I'm having trouble with Photo & Photofolder. When adding new jpgs to a new or existing Photofolder I get an "err32: broken pipe" error. In ZMI I can see the thumbnail fails to generate, the actual photo however can be shown when called directly. I'm using Imagemagick but it seems Zope doesn't find it. Never had problems with the product before, but after a server crash we reinstalled everything. Something wrong installed? Incompatible versions? Please feedback, I have this thing running on production sites! Thanks a lot, Tim Met vriendelijke groet, _______________________________________________ Tim Willems - Architect Planet Interior bvba Brouwerijstraat 16 2200 Noorderwijk Belgium mob: +32 (0)496 532377 tel: +32 (0)14 279396 fax: +32 (0)14 264790 email: tim(a)planetinterior.com portfolio: www.planetinterior.com This email and any attached files are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this email. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore is in no way liable for any errors or omissions in the content of this message, which may arise as a result of email transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard copy.

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Z SQL Method, ZMySQLDA, connection pooling, threads, life, the universe, and everything
by Dennis Allison 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

I'm about to add connection pooling for MySQL. This necessarily interacts with threading and persistance and other arcane arts. Advice and/or pointers to hidden gotchas would be much appreciated. Mu understanding: Zope runs multiple threads (up to 7 without recompiling -- it's a ZODB connection limit) using the underlying Python threading model. The scheduling unit for threads is a single HTTP transaction. (IS THIS RIGHT?) Threads are scheduled out of the medusa asyncore by polling select. Python local data is, of course, automatically thread-safe. Global data is not and is shared across threads. Persistence is mostly orthogonal to the thread issue. When created, each ZSQL method searches for and binds to one particular RDBMS adaptor. For my pooled connection approach, there'd be only one ZMYSQLDA instance to which all ZSQL Methods would bind. The ZSQL Method would find the connector by acquisiton (as it does currently) and allow binding to one or another of the predefined virtual connections. Most of the changes look simple. The ZMySQLDA mechanism will need some significant changes, some of which need to be thread safe. ZMySQLDA and MySQLdb are thread-safe at level one, that is, threads may share the modules but **not the connections**. On startup, there are no actual database connections only virtual connections. Connections are created (up to a max number) as needed and retired (that is, closed) when they are no longer needed. If the virtual connections are tagged with the Zope thread (how does one identify which thread) virtual connections become thread safe (since a different actual connection is allocated for each executing thread)--a feature which should give a performance boost when certain connections are hot spots. Allocation and deallocation of actual connections will need to be under the control of a lock on some shared data structure. A simple mangement strategy can be used provided database transactions complete before the thread is rescheduled. Because this is being patched into a Zope Product that is a heavy reuser of Zope, I've been pondering the best way to fit this feature transparently (or nearly transparently) into the existing code. Given the system structure, it seems to me that the shared data strutures and methods can be maintained as class variables (that is, shared accross instances) while each instance has its own (lightweight) state. Is there any better system structure which will meld neatly into the Zope structure. -dra

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Replacing an unicode string
by Florian Reiser 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Hi folks, I have an unicode string: text = u'ABC<EURO>' Now I want to do a replacement of the string u'<EURO>' to u'\u20ac' (this is the euro sign). When I type text = text.replace(u'<EURO>', u'\u20ac') nothing happens, the string is still u'ABC<EURO>' How can I replace the tag '<EURO>' and insert the euro sign instead? Regards Florian Reiser

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How the heck do I do this Python for Loop?
by Bill Hewitt 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

This has been driving me crazy for the last week...... I wrote a python script that loops through a directory called StyleBook and selects a particular stylesheet based on the Day of the week, the year and a parameter..... --------- example: --------- ## Look for Day Year (ie - Monday 2003) in the StyleBook Directory for i in container.StyleBook.objectValues('Style Sheet'): ## Check the TITLE of "i" against a preset variable and aparameter if i.title = DAYYEAR and i.stylesheetrequest == stylesheetrequest: ### At this point I have all the variables (47 total) except the ID :( This works - I get the proper Style Sheet.... I would *like* to then call a DTML Method against the values in the NAMESPACE of the object I found in the code above..... something like return container.StyleBook.i.loadStyle() but every variation I have tried doesnt work - I get an error telling me that "i" is not in the global NameSpace.... Could someone PLEASE help me through this one? I know it is probably very simple, but it is evading me... WPH

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Zope 2.6.1 and Windows Server 2003 Standard
by Brian Sullivan 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Anybody out there successfully running this combination? Installation appears to go OK but the service won't start -- any ideas where to look?

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ExternalEditor and Zope's gzip compression, in Windows
by Ausum Studio 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

I just stumbled with a problem while working with both Zope's gzip compression and ExternalEditor: If you enable gzip in HTTPResponse.py, like this: use_HTTP_content_compression = 1 expect the problem that every time you click at the icon to launch the editor, Windows will start to ask for what to do with the to-download file. If you respond to open, then it will trigger the File Types dialog box, asking for the right app to open it. In other words, you'll be tempted to reinstall ExternalEditor. :) Any ideas of how to patch this? Thanks in advance, Ausum

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Bug Report
by beno 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi; Can a few of you hit this page: http://mrtablecloth-vi.com/ and click "Tablecloths" at the BOTTOM of the page, click through a few selection screens and see if you see any error messages? If you do, can you send me the errors and also browser and OS info? I'm having trouble locating a bug that I can't see. Thanks for your help, beno

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