You may want to try out Dieter Maurer's DocFinder product (http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/DocFinder.html). Otherwise the help system and the Zope Book appendices are what you've got. Note that there is a fairly extensive API reference in the help system. Were you successful at accessing your Zope objects in a Python prompt? Were you able to glean this from some of the other things that were sent your way last week: cd ZOPEHOME/lib/python python
import Zope app = Zope.app() app.objectIds() ['standard_error_message', ...]
You can explore Zope objects via a command-line this way. HTH, - C ----- Original Message ----- From: "Skip Montanaro" <skip@pobox.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 6:16 PM Subject: [Zope] Python -> ZopePython cheat sheet?
I am *so* used to just being able to explore around my Python
interpreter
and having everything I need documentation-wise in the global module index of the library reference manual that I am finding the whole Zope experience incredibly frustrating. Is there no equivalent of dir() or type() which I can use from a Python script to find out what the heck I've been passed? Assuming there is some way to find out what I've gote, is there something like Python's global module index where I can just click on "Formulator" or "container" and get some documentation useful to a Python programmer?
frustrated-in-evanston...
-- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/
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