On 22 Apr 2001 19:18:58 +0200, Georg Rellensmann wrote:

Hi,

I want to do some form typechecking on the server side for date input. Strptime() is what I need, but the function is not part of the windows distribution. So I was happy to discover strptime.py from Andy Eskilsson (http://www.fukt.hk-r.se/~flognat), which works nicely from the commandline in PythonWin.

But how the hell (sorry) can I get it "into" my Python/ZOPE installation? I´d like to call it from a Python script. Reading lots of list archives and the like didn´t give me a clue yet. from the help function in Zope 2.3.1 i got the following info, which actually works for me. I wanted to import urlparse into a pythin script. In my /var/zope-2.3.1/Products directory (INSTANCEHOME, where i install all my local and not "standard" Zope products) i created a directory `Modules' and in this directory a file __init__.py in this file i wrote the following:

from Products.PythonScripts.Utility import allow_module, allow_class from AccessControl import ModuleSecurityInfo, ClassSecurityInfo from Globals import InitializeClass allow_module("urlparse"); and then i could import urlparse into a python script. see also help->script(python)->allowing import of modules.

Please help!

Hope I am not off topic (is this a Python thing?), but others might be interested in strptime.py functionality as well.

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