"Ian!" wrote:
I am having a very hard time writing python scripts for zope. I don't know which objects do what, and I can't find out where to look up the relevant documentation.
I brought this up in an earlier post to the list, but I didn't get a response. I've read through the zope book (at http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/contents ), but it doesn't really cover what I'm looking for - it doesn't really seem to be a guide to writing scripts.
The Zope API reference seems to be the reference for people who are developing products or external methods for zope, because all of those modules can't imported from within a python script under zope, even though it seems like stuff I would want to use. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/AppendixB.stx
The Zope help from within the zope management interface contains the same API reference, as well as some other stuff that (as far as I can tell) isn't what I'm looking for.
I want to get the current CMF member and change some of it's extra data attributes (attributes which I added with the management interface portal_memberdata) - I don't know how to do this, but more importantly I don't know where to look up how to do it. Can anyone help me out? Sorry for being such a lost newbie =)
Names (and their ojects) may be looked up from the names/attributes of the default bound objects (at least, zope 2.5.0): context, container, script, traverse_subpath when your script is called, these are defined. context is the caller (usually some zpt/dtml-document), container the containing folder as these objects are objects in data.fs, data.fs is an object collection organized as a tree (ObjectManager is one of the base classes of Folder), close to any object (and its attributes) are accessible from your py script (security aside). execution pereforms in a restricted environment, the zope book dtml-appendix contains a list of restricted code. hth for a start -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Who's got only a hammer sees the world as a nail hans augustin (software developer) hans@beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299