[Zope-dev] New version of BTreeFolder

[Kapil Thangavelu]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> Hi gang,
> 
> This version just fixes a bug with the folder contents tab on Windows.
> For some reason, on Windows 95 (and perhaps other platforms) the Python
> interpreter behaves differently enough that if you use a class
> attribute from a different module and put it in your own class, you may
> in fact be modifying its global context.  It's probably a bug in
> Python.  As a workaround, this version of BTreeFolders doesn't have the
> "details" tab anymore.
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/hathawsh/BTreeFolder/BTreeFolder-0.1.1.tar.gz
> 
> BTW has anyone done any semi-formal speed tests?  It's rumored that a
> custom getattr in Python can cause a bit of a slowdown.  We could write
> a custom getattr in C to solve the problem.  But we don't want to do
> any premature optimization.
> 
> Shane

I'll work on some tests.

Kapil