Re: [Zope] Access object's class name (rather than meta_type)

Jon Whitener wrote at 2003-2-21 17:40 -0500:

Is there a way from Python to find objects according to their *class* name instead of by their meta_type?

Whereas it is easy to find objects by meta_type, e.g.

list = context.objectValues('Page Template')

I need isntead to find them by the class name, i.e. the name that appears when you show a list of Zope objects, e.g. ZopePageTemplate in

"<ZopePageTemplate at /foo/theTemplate>"

When you are ready to write an External Method: from Acquisition import aq_base def getClassName(obj): '''return the name of *obj* class.''' return aq_base(obj).__class__.__name__ As you need to access names starting with "_", you cannot do it in TTW code but must use an External Method. Dieter