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RE: [Zope] Fourth request for help - Win2K+Zope
by Martijn Pieters 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

From: Michael Simcich [mailto:msimcich@accesstools.com] > I wonder what it takes to get some assistance with this > issue? I have to > assume that none of my peer Zope users out there knows what > to do with my > problem (Zope doesn't run under Windows 2000 as detailed in > previous posts). > So what do you all recommend that I try next? As far as I > know this list is > about it for peer level support so is my only alternative to > see if DC is > willing to enter into the smallest support contract ever seen? > > Sorry for the repetitive posts, but I need to get this thing > working. Unless > someone can point me to a better platform <g>. I am just > really disappointed > and frustrated with the lack of assistance and... a working > copy of Zope. Heh, I wouldn't start about this platform thingy if I were you =) I don't know anything about Win2k, but I did see something on the DC support list about certain types of VPN software interfering. Both PGPNet and Connect for Windows, caused a similar problem (python.exe Application Error), which disappeared after removing them. Maybe some software component on your server is interfering with Python? Try a clean, minimal install of Win2k. Other than that, you could try the python mailinglist, as it doesn't sound like something particular to Zope. And ActiveState (http://www.activestate.com/) supports python on Win32, and Mark Hammond works there now. Maybe they can help as well (for a fee I imagine). -- Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer | Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org | mailto:mj@digicool.com ICQ: 4532236 | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 -------------------------------------------

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simple(?) newbie dtml question
by Eron Lloyd 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

How can I include a DTML method that renders correctly within another DTML Document when the method is in a subdirectory of the current? The DTML method is a simple HTML table that I want to embed in another document; it works fine if the method is in the current directory (<dtml-var table_method>), but I want to put it in a subfolder and call it. <dtml-var "subfolder.table_method"> works, but it spits out straight HTML code, not rendered. Any help on this? Thanks, Eron

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Help Installing Zope Products
by Pedro Sanchez 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

Hello, I'm starting to play with zope and I'm running into problems when installing "products." More specifically I'm trying to install Squishdot following the instructions in the distribution. Basically, I untar the files under zope root's directory (/var/lib/zope in Debian GNU/Linux which is the platform I use) and then I restart the server. I'm supposed to see the products right there or under "Product Management" but I see nothing. I managed to install ZPhotoAlbum because it comes with a .zexp file that allowed me to import the product into zope (I copied this file to /var/lib/zope/imports). But Squishdot doesn't have this. Can anyone give some hints on what I might be missing? Thank you in advance for your help. -- Pedro I. Sanchez

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Batch importing stuff into Zope
by Stephen Pitts 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

I'm trying to batch-import about 300 JPEGs into Zope as instances of the Photo product using the following python script: from urllib import urlopen, urlencode from sys import argv from time import time # first argument is name of folder within the Photos folder url = "http://www.centralchurchyouth.org:8100/Photos/%s/manage_addProduct/Photo/ma…" % argv[1] # additional arguments are filenames for filename in argv[2:]: args = {} args['file'] = open(filename).read() args['id'] = filename args['title'] = filename args = urlencode(args) beforeurlopen = time() urlopen(url, args) print filename, time() - beforeurlopen The script works, but it takes an average of 30-40 seconds per JPEG. I've got a fast connection to the server, and the JPEGS are 40-50 k apiece. Uploading from the management interface takes 2-3 seconds. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Stephen Pitts smpitts(a)midsouth.rr.com

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XMLDocument Question
by Techlists 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

Quick XMLDocument Question. A DTD that I am working with has a structure that looks something like this: <body.content> <block> Paragraph 1. Paragraph 2. Paragraph 3. Paragraph 4. </block> </body.content> I need to be able to use dtml methods to map such paragraphs to html paragraphs within a dtml document to display the whole document using Zope and XMLDocument as a kind of server-side style sheet. This should be easy, but I can't find docs to figure it out myself. Anyone got some quick answers? Thanks in advance, Sean --Sean D. Upton - Product Development Coordinator --Tribune Solutions - Developers of NewsView Solutions Products --8th Floor, 143 S. Main Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 --(801) 257-8816 *** sean(a)sltrib.com

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Check internal link consistency (aka linkbot)?
by Stefan Hoffmeister 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

How do you check the internal consistency of link - traditionally known as a linkbot? Of course one could run a bot on the published site - but that seems to be a bit inefficient?

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structured text formatting
by John Williams 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

The structured text formating doesn't appear to work properly with data extracted from an external SQL database - in particular the paragraph type formatting is lost although the character type formatting does work. How do I get around this problem? -- Dr. John A.R. Williams Photonics Research Group Telecommunications Technology Programme Director Aston University

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Password problem.
by Eddie Maddox 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

Just starting to learn Zope. Running Mandrake 6.1 on AMD K6. Grabbed Zope 2.1.4 i386 .tgz. Unpacked in /usr/share/zope-2.1.4 . ./install -u Super_Manager_username --> ok, except, thanks to Zope List archives, figured out I had to chown nobody. .../var and rerun ./install, otherwise it aborted trying to write the Z2.pid file. (Some one should report that as a bug, that ./install gets the .../var ownership wrong.) Now, using the Lynx browser (of course), Goto: http://localhost:8080 --> Welcome to Zope! But, selecting "management screen", I give it Username & Password for Super Manager --> Authorization failed. So, I try the "bin/python zpasswd.py zpassword" from /usr/share/zope-2.1.4. All looks fine, but doesn't work. Am excited about using Zope, and later the Portal Tool Kit. Just this one little problem, though. Thanks for your help. ------------------ Eddie Maddox eddie(a)mngovsci.com

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ID with Space in Name
by Jochen Haeberle 28 Feb '00

28 Feb '00

Hi, I have a problem with an object that has a Space in it's ID Name. The object causes several problems because it sometimes cannot be found. The object is contained in a catalog_aware class and cannot be renamed or deleted because an error occurs: Error Type: ValueError Error Value: Uncatalog of absent id 'Album/Narrentreffen2000/Fete%201' Anyone has a clue how I can get rid of such an object? Jochen

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External Method Directory not recognized
by TMGB 28 Feb '00

28 Feb '00

>From the Control Panel: Zope version: Zope 2.0.0 (binary release, python 1.5.2, win32-x86) Python version: 1.5.2 (#0, Jul 30 1999, 09:52:18) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] System Platform: win32 Process ID: (removed) Running for: 1 hour 31 min 54 sec First of all, I am using the "How-To:Using External Methods" How-to Created by Brian (thanks Brian). Second, Am I using the right zope feature to do what I want or should I choose another route? I am trying to change all " to "" so that MySQL will not truncate text coming from a form to be stored in a text field that has a quote in the text which it now truncates. I am trying to use a python External method. MySQL will accept "" or \" (maybe /"). I have written a python file that works as written ( at least on my pc) to change " to "". This is my directory structure: ZopeSite - bin - doc - Extensions - quote2dblquote.py - Graphics - inst - lib - MidiFiles - pcgi - utilities - var - Zserver I created the Extensions directory because there was none and restarted the server, even tried putting an Extensions directory under Zserver and restart it (got same error). Here's the sequence i go through: -------- from Add External Method ------------- Id: q2dq Title: set one double quote to two double quotes for MySQL Function name: quote2dblquote Python module file:quote2dblquote -------- end add method -------------------- ----------- Zope error ----------------------- Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: IOError Error Value: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-S' Troubleshooting Suggestions The URL may be incorrect. The parameters passed to this resource may be incorrect. A resource that this resource relies on may be encountering an error. For more detailed information about the error, please refer to the HTML source for this page. If the error persists please contact the site maintainer. Thank you ---------- end zope error msg ------------------ ----- html source from error page -------------- <TITLE>Missing Post reply data</TITLE> <H1>Data Missing</H1> This document resulted from a POST operation and has expired from the cache. If you wish you can repost the form data to recreate the document by pressing the reload button. ------- end html source ------------------------- ---------- python script----------- import fileinput import string def quote2dblquote(): text="" for line in fileinput.input(): line = string.replace(line,"\"","\"\"") text = text + string.join(line,"") print text # for testing # return (text) # do I need this quote2dblquote() ------- end python script ---------- Okay, here goes, I'm sending this, Thomas ps - once I can use the object q2dq how do I tell it the argument, like this? <dtml-var q2dq(<dtml-var question>)> where question is the parameter coming from the form. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rock and Rule Zope Rocks -- http://www.zope.org Python Rules -- http://www.python.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University Computer Consultant II University Library bennettt(a)am.appstate.edu http://www.library.appstate.edu/webmaster/ Voice: 828 262 6587 FAX: 828 262 3001 Windows 95 is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit patch for an 8-bit operating system that was originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor. - Chris Dunphy Boot Magazine

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