Bruce wrote:
Thanks for working on Open Source products, folks. Zope is impressive.
Thanks. Wait till you see tomorrow's release for accessing objects via ftp :^)
I find myself in clueless newbie mode dispite having read various documents.
I am confused regarding how to install a Python module via the manager. I'm able to set properties of folders and I see how to install an external method. What I'd like to do is _upload_ an entire Python module, so that this module will be an object within my folder and will have its methods available for use by other objects in the folder.
Zope has had a policy (which Jim Fulton and I re-discussed over lunch at the chinese buffet yesterday) that Python code doesn't get stuffed in the object database. I'll leave it to him to detail the reasons.
What little I have been able to acquire by looking at example products is that the module should be put in Zope/lib/python/, working in the shell and not the manager - it seems odd that I would not be uploading the module as I upload documents, using your nice multi-tiered security set-up. Once that is done, it's not clear to me how to associate that file with a folder - am I using the installer of external methods to install one "factory" method that brings in the rest of the module?
The quickest way to integrate Python code is External Methods: 1) Create an Extensions directory in your Zope directory. 2) Add your module there with a function that *has a docstring* !! 3) In a Zope Folder, choose External Method from the add list. This will create a Zope object that binds your function as a method of the folder. Arguments are passed in and type-casted. The object also has all of Zope's security machinery. To do full-fledged Products, check out Amos' fantastic tutorial: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Reference/Tutorial --Paul Paul Everitt Digital Creations paul@digicool.com 540.371.6909