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Stupid Newbie question
by David Lambert 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

I am sure that the answer to this question has been staring at me ever since I started using Zope. Anyway, how do I find a list of 'builtin' variables such as 'id' ,'title', and 'title_or_id' etc.? I just realized that I had been using them without really understanding where they are defined. Could it be dangerous if I inadvertantly reused these names? Many thanks, Dave.

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Yay! My first paying Zope job! (HELP!)
by Eric Walstad 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

I finally convinced my client to give Zope a try. It's taken a long time and I've had to plow thru a lot of "What's Python!?" "What's Zope!?" questions and shrink-wrap inertia. It's a small project, but it's a project and I get to play with Zope! Anyway, I had to share the news with someone that can relate to how I feel about finally having a Zope project that pays! Now for the HELP part. The target system will be RH6.2 and we need to run Apache with SSL in front of Zope and MySQL behind it. I can handle Zope and MySQL, but I have very little experience with installing and configuring Apache and SSL to work in front of Zope. Before I wander blindly into the web looking for the right documentation, I was hoping that someone here might have good pointers to HOWTO's that would speed the learning process for me. Zope specific leads (if there are any) would be fantastic. Thanks for any help you can provide. Eric.

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Renaming folder slow...
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

I have a folder that contains a hierarchy that includes some code, and about 10,000 cataloged objects; renaming that folder is really slow; I'm just curious if anyone knows why? Does the id of the folder have to be re-keyed in all of its children? Sean ========================= Sean Upton Senior Programmer/Analyst SignOnSanDiego.com The San Diego Union-Tribune 619.718.5241 sean.upton(a)uniontrib.com =========================

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RE: [Zope] How do I efficiently join catalog results with other data?
by J. Cone 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

Hello All, I'm not sure you have a problem you can solve lasily here. Simplifying the problem immensely, if you have two one-to-one mappings, involving three completely disjoint orderable datatypes: A <-> B B <-> C and you want to produce a list of C in the order suggested by A, there are two reasonable ways of doing it: - merge then sort - get both lists sorted in B order (assumed free) - walk down finding B's that match (you can tell what to discard because it's less than the head of the other one) (linear) - sort on A (log-linear; not lazy) - sort then lookup - get the first list in A order (assumed free) - get the second list as a dictionary of B->C (assumed free) - walk the first list looking up C values in the second (log per lookup; log-linear in total; not lazy on B->C) If you want to do this in python, I think sort-then-lookup might be more natural, and that the small-code way of doing it might be: - make the lookup into a lambda function (see www.python.org) - map the lambda function down the A<->B list The key step in merge-then-sort is the merge. It would need about 10 lines of horrible ksh. I don't believe there's any natural way of doing it in python. HTH, J. Cone At 15:17 28/07/01 +1000, Jay, Dylan wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Casey Duncan [mailto:cduncan@kaivo.com] >> Sent: Saturday, 28 July 2001 8:14 AM >> To: Jay, Dylan >> Cc: 'zope(a)zope.org' >> Subject: Re: [Zope] How do I efficiently join catalog results >> with other >> data? >> >> >> "Jay, Dylan" wrote: >> > >> > Here is my problem: >> > >> > I have a dynamic per user map of data about various >> objects. I want to do a >> > catalog search, combine the results with my other dynamic >> data and then sort >> > on the dynamic data. >> >> What type of "dynamic data"? Integers, dates, strings, etc? > >a tuple of mostly integers and floats. > >> > >> > Has anyone tried doing this? >> > How do I do it efficiently, still getting the benifits of >> low memory usage >> > of lazy result sets? >> >> You should make the dynamic data returned from a script and >> add a field >> index to the catalog that calls the script. Then you can use the >> "sort_on" argument to the catalog to sort on the dynamic data. > >The set of data is different for every user so this won't work unless I was >willing to have a seperate catalog for every user. Having a seperate catalog >for each user would be fine if I could combine two to searchs of two >different catalogs togeather. and by combine I don't the _plus_ operator you >can use for search results. What I need is a relational join, ie only the >results from both sets where a certain field has the same value on both. > >Someone must have tried to do something like this before? > >_______________________________________________ >Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope >** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** >(Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > >

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Help needed in getting HierMenu to work
by Greg McCall 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

Hi Has anyone had success using the HierMenu listed at http://www.zope.org/Members/Ioan/ZHierMenus It seems to use the HierMenus at http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/ I would rather use this Javascript menu system using Zope in place of just putting the Javascript in the page and manually setting the menu. Maybe someone has got it working and I have missed something? I am using Zope 2.3.3 (binary release, python 1.5.2, linux2-x86) regards Greg

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ZDebug 0.2 incompatible with Formulator 1.0
by Dieter Maurer 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

Just analysed a strange exception during form validation with Formulator: Zope reported a "TypeError: expected 3, got 2 arguments" from "ZDebug.DTMLDebug.py:184". This is in the middle of a call to "dtmlexc", no function call around. It turned out that: The problem was the creation of the exception object. ZDebug assumes that exceptions accept a single string argument, but "FormValidationError" wants 2 arguments. Attached is a patch trying to work around the problem: It raises the exception in a "try ... except". When this raises the expected exception, then it is reraised; otherwise, the original exception is raised (which is not so good as the ZDebug Message but better than nothing). Dieter

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by Angie tel 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

Import Traceback Traceback (innermost last): File "C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\OFS\Application.py", line 530, in import_products product=__import__(pname, global_dict, global_dict, silly) File "C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Products\mysqlUserFolder\__init__.py", line 12, in ? import mysqlUserFolder File "C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Products\mysqlUserFolder\mysqlUserFolder.py", line 11, in ? import cfg, util, vdb, db, log File "C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Products\mysqlUserFolder\vdb.py", line 16, in ? from db import dbConnection File "C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Products\mysqlUserFolder\db.py", line 10, in ? import MySQLdb, _mysql File "C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Products\mysqlUserFolder\MySQLdb.py", line 19, in ? import _mysqlImportError: DLL load failed: One of the library files needed to run this application cannot be found. My mysql user folder is broken and it returns an error message as above. i tried to copy the libmysql.dll into ZOPE/lib/python/Products/Mysqluserfolder but also can not work. Is this error message mentioning the DLL library file is libmysql.dll? if not, where can i get it? --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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RE: [Zope] How do I efficiently join catalog results with other d ata?
by Jay, Dylan 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

> -----Original Message----- > From: Casey Duncan [mailto:cduncan@kaivo.com] > Sent: Saturday, 28 July 2001 8:14 AM > To: Jay, Dylan > Cc: 'zope(a)zope.org' > Subject: Re: [Zope] How do I efficiently join catalog results > with other > data? > > > "Jay, Dylan" wrote: > > > > Here is my problem: > > > > I have a dynamic per user map of data about various > objects. I want to do a > > catalog search, combine the results with my other dynamic > data and then sort > > on the dynamic data. > > What type of "dynamic data"? Integers, dates, strings, etc? a tuple of mostly integers and floats. > > > > Has anyone tried doing this? > > How do I do it efficiently, still getting the benifits of > low memory usage > > of lazy result sets? > > You should make the dynamic data returned from a script and > add a field > index to the catalog that calls the script. Then you can use the > "sort_on" argument to the catalog to sort on the dynamic data. The set of data is different for every user so this won't work unless I was willing to have a seperate catalog for every user. Having a seperate catalog for each user would be fine if I could combine two to searchs of two different catalogs togeather. and by combine I don't the _plus_ operator you can use for search results. What I need is a relational join, ie only the results from both sets where a certain field has the same value on both. Someone must have tried to do something like this before?

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RE: [Zope] Yay! My first paying Zope job! (HELP!)
by Eric Walstad 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

Thanks for the reply, Joel... Do I have to use virtual hosts when using Apache/SSL/Zope? It's probably a good idea in the long run, in case they need to run more than one site from this machine, but is it required? Thanks, Eric. > Get the SSL set up on Apache w/o any special Zope setup first. Depending > on your setup, SSL can be a snap (w/RPM install), or it can mean > recompiling half of the world. > > http://www.zope.org/Members/unfo/apache_zserver_ssl > > walks through install SSL + install of VirtualHostMonster. > > http://www.zope.org/Members/comlounge/vsr > > is a simple fix to make it easier to use https for absolute_urls. > > Good luck. > > -- > Joel Burton <jburton(a)scw.org> > Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington

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FTP automangling file extension: semi-working proof-of-concept
by Joel Burton 28 Jul '01

28 Jul '01

Yesterday, I suggested that it might be helpful for FTP & WebDAV to return a pseudo-extension for the type of file being read so that non-Zope-saavy programs could more effectively work with Zope files. (Some programs, notably Dreamweaver and GoLive, refuse to work w/files w/o extensions.) When the file is later uploaded via FTP/WebDAV, the extension would be removed. I've tinkered ~30min with the source code and made two very trivial changes to produce a proof-of-concept. This does the following: 1) in FTP, all files are shown with ".foo" extension 2) when a file is rec'd, the ".foo" is stripped back off It's __far__ from a real implementation: the extensions would be sensitive to the type of file being edited; the ".foo" stripping code should check to see if this is a WebDAV/FTP transfer (right now it *always* strips the .foo off!), etc. However, even with this trivial patch, it works well enough to: 1) teach Dreamweaver that .foo files should be edited w/dreamweaver 2) through Zope, create a "test" DTML Document 3) in Dreamweaver+FTP, this test doc shows up as test.foo 4) this can be edited in Dreamweaver and saved 5) the changes appear as "test" in Zope. What I'd Like: Is this a fair idea? I doubt the fine folks at ZopeCorp will rush my three-line patch into the core ;-), but I'd would like to get the sense if I'm heading in a sane direction. Obviously, you should apply this patch to a production server: (patched to the Zope 2.4 source) [joel@eos joel]$ diff -Naur old new diff -Naur old/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py new/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py --- old/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py Thu Jul 5 15:09:08 2001 +++ new/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py Sat Jul 28 02:38:43 2001 @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ try: stat=marshal.loads(v.manage_FTPstat(REQUEST)) except: stat=None if stat is not None: - out=out+((k,stat),) + out=out+((k+'.foo',stat),) # WJB return marshal.dumps(out) def manage_FTPstat(self,REQUEST): @@ -689,6 +689,10 @@ def __getitem__(self, key): + + if key[-4:]=='.foo': # WJB + key=key[:-4] + v=self._getOb(key, None) if v is not None: return v if hasattr(self, 'REQUEST'): -- Joel Burton <jburton(a)scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington

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