At 09:30 PM 1/25/00 -0600, Evan Simpson wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: James W. Howe <jwh@allencreek.com>

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There must be some way to either manually compile Python code or somehow get compilation error messages. Can someone help a Python newbie with this simple task?

Broken Products should show a 'broken' icon in the Products page, and have a management tab which gives you the error message and traceback.

The product didn't have a 'broken' icon, it just didn't have any of the subobjects. Normally I would have the product name and three items in the product which corresponded to the three ZClasses defined in the product. When the python code is bad I have no ZClass subobjects and any instances have the broken icon. However, I don't see a management tab anywhere and the source html doesn't tell me anything. Right now the way I "solved" my problem is to open the python interpreter and "import" my python base class. That way I can see syntax error messages. It seems like there must be a better way.

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For DTMLMethods, I just call manage_addDTMLMethod. However, I'm also adding an instance of another ZClass I've written, and in the DTML code, I have to do a <dtml-with "manage_addProduct[...]" before I call the add method for my ZClass. What would be a way to accomplish this in Python code?

Something like...

newproduct = self.manage_addProduct... newproduct.manage_addDTMLMethod(...)

I believe that would work for adding DTML Methods, but when I want to add an instance of my ZClass I do something like this in DTML code: <dtml-call "FooClass_add(_.None, _, NoRedir=1)"> what is the equivalent Python code? The "_" isn't understood as an attribute and if I replaced "_" with self then None isn't found. Thanks for your help. James W. Howe mailto:jwh@allencreek.com Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html Ann Arbor, MI 48103