The script is finding the "actions" folder in "activity" instead of finding it at the root (but you probably guessed that already). There would be a huge number of namespaces to search if Zope "kept going" when it failed to find "action1" in "activity.actions" which would slow down attribute access tremendously, which is why it doesn't find "actions.action_1". Try something like this to search both namespaces: name_to_find = 'action_1' actions = getattr(container, 'actions') if not hasattr(actions, name_to_find): actions = context.restrictedTraverse('/actions') action = getattr(actions, name_to_find) action() ----- Original Message ----- From: "p.t." <p.training@tin.it> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 11:26 AM Subject: [Zope] Python script calling environment

I have this situation:

root | |- actions (Folder) | |- action_1 (Script) | |- activity (Folder) |- aScript (Script) => running this script |- actions (Folder) |- action_2 (Script)

If in aScript I call container.actions.action_1(), testing the script I get:

Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: action_1

I expected that, if "actions.action_1" was not found in "activity", it was searched in the parent folder of "activity", and so on up to the top of the tree.

Is this a simple limitation rule, or there is a deeper reason? As an alternative, is there a way to "inherit" in "activity/actions" the scripts contained in "root/activity"?

p.t.

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