You can use an External Method or extend the "commonly agreed upon as safe" restricted Python used by Scripts Python. Since you are wanting to read a file, you may be stuck with an External Method. Or you could build a Product... On 16 Sep 2003, Jerry Westrick wrote:
Hello Zopistas....
I'm trying to read a binary file from within zope...
It's format is rather simple, but it does a length stored as an Unsigned long.
In a test program, I used to struct.unpack(...) to read in the unsigned long...
Unfortunatetly, Zope don't want me to do this 8-(
Is there a work around? Is there a work around, or must I create an unpack(..) external script just to get this value?
Jerry Westrick...
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