[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] ANN: Python Methods 0.1.7 up and over t o DC

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Itamar Shtull-Trauring [mailto:itamars@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 4:48 PM
> To: Phillip J. Eby
> Cc: zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] ANN: Python Methods 0.1.7 up 
> and over to
> DC
> 
> 
> Moved to zope-dev.
> 
> "Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
> 
> > At the risk of excessively critiquing such a young and 
> exciting product,
> > may I suggest that some care be taken w/respect to 
> namespace issues in
> > PythonMethods?  That is, rather than adding things like 
> "special_formats"
> > and using special names like "traverse_subpath", couldn't 
> we use import
> > with a special module path?  (E.g. "from 
> _Zope.special_formats import
> > html_quote".)  Then, specials would not be a part of the 
> common namespace.
> 
> This would be the only thing you can import in any case (no 
> imports in PM),
> so how about just renaming traverse_subpath to _traverse_subpath and
> special_formats to _special_formats?  That way there's no chance of
> namespace conflicts without adding an import.

I agree with Phillip though, we are going down the route of DTML and
straying from python by populating the namespace with assumed objects.

-Michel