[Zope-CMF] Resource limits in Zope???

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:15:53 +0100


Braun Brelin writes:
 > I'm running into a strange problem with Zope.  I've
 > written an external method that takes, as it's
 > argument, a postscript file and then calls
 > /usr/bin/ps2pdf and translates it into a pdf file for
 > viewing on the browser.  
 > 
 > The problem seems to be that the method only works for
 > files of a certain size.  I.e. small files work, files
 > of > than 100K (or thereabouts) don't work.
For larger files, "file.data" is not longer a string
but a more complex structure (a sequence of blocks).

Use "str(file.data)" to explicitly convert it into a string.

If you files are really large, you want to learn about the more
complex structure and use it to avoid large memory consumption.


Dieter