On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 02:06 PM, Sean Gillies wrote:

Greetings,

I have a Zope product (http://zope.org/Members/sgillies/zmapserver) and am trying to put together documentation using pydoc or epydoc.

Problem is that each of these croak when they inspect my packages which import:

import Globals from Globals import Persistent

pydoc reports

ImportError: cannot import name Persistent

and epydoc reports similarly. I am certain that I have PYTHONPATH set up correctly. I've been using ZopeTestCase extensively in development, so I think I have a good handle on the environment needed to import Zope.

Can pydoc/epydoc be used for my purposes only within the context of a live Zope? Am I going to have to create a Zope instance as in a ZopeTestCase and then run pydoc/epydoc against the code in Products?

I'd really like to hear of any kind of solution.

thanks, Sean

Well, just answered my own question. Funny how when you take the time to really think it through enough to describe it to others, the solution can come around. I edited epydoc to add import Zope app = Zope.app() at the beginning. cheers, Sean -- Sean Gillies sgillies at frii dot com http://www.frii.com/~sgillies