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

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Simpson [mailto:evan@4-am.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 6:02 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
> 
> 
> "Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
> 
> > Did Ty or I ever send you the "isDocTemp=0" fix?
> 
> No, I don't think so.  What problems does the mistaken 
> DocTemp-ness cause?
> 
> > Setting "isDocTemp=0" in the PythonMethod class fixes this.
> 
> Send me CVS access instructions and I'll be happy to make the 
> change ;-)
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I was a bit uncomfortable with both of these.  In the case of
> "traverse_subpath", it wasn't clear to me how to decide 
> whether to allow (and
> capture) direct traversal otherwise.  I couldn't use property 
> settings, since
> PMs don't have those, and I was reluctant to simply leave 
> traversal always
> turned on.  "special_formats" is sheer laziness on my part, 
> since the dict
> was sitting there, ripe to be popped into the namespace, and 
> with invalid
> identifiers for keys.

I think the desire we're trying to solve here is comming up with an
interface, but to what, or at what level that interface should exist, is
the nut of the problem.

-Michel