Chris Withers writes:
Dieter Maurer wrote:
Pieter Biemond writes:
* Why is the default file index_html and not index.html (Windows doesn't want to open files without extensions). I assume, because preferences of Python, Zope's implementation language, have had a higher priority than Windows preferences ;-) Python does not like periods in names.
That's not really true, python doesn't seem to care a lot about what's in a name. A name is a well defined lexical entity in Python: a sequence of letters, '_' and digits, starting with a letter or '_'.
If you have periods, it just means you need things like:
getattr(getattr(getattr(globals(),'x.y'), 'z.a'), 'index.html') What you want to say:
attributes can be referenced with more general entities than names, e.g. arbitrary strings. But: Try to define a method(!) "index.html" in a class. I know, it is possible. But it is not natural. Dieter